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Word: alerting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alert nation, militarily and industrially prepared against a national emergency, has an excellent chance of avoiding such an emergency." With these words of dubious comfort, the Munitions Board last week issued a booklet entitled Military Procurement, a comprehensive pocket guide to war planning by U.S. industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: For War Planners | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...This course requires the backing of a strong, alert and mobile military machine. For weaklings have never yet won a campaign-political or otherwise-against dictators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A System That Works | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Captain Ted Backe's match with Tiger ace Billy Vogt, a nationally ranked player, was typical of the afternoon's play. Backe could offer little resistance to the swift, alert play of his opponent, going down in speedy 6-1, 6-3 sets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Blanks Tennis Team, 9-0, In Year's Finale | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

...shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills, once the world's biggest. Last week, at 82, shaggy-browed, alert Frederic Dumaine was in the midst of the biggest coup of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raid on the New Haven | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Hawthorne's hands, commercials get rough justice. When a plug is due, he bangs on his "attention getter" (a pair of crash cymbals) as a red alert to the audience. Most of the transcribed commercials are played at either very slow or breakneck speeds, so that they sound like either a foghorn or Donald Duck. On one occasion he treated his listeners to ten minutes of Bach, with interpolated comments and seal yelps. Conductor Mark Warndw, after hearing a Hawthorne show, said judiciously: "He's half haw, half thorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Peachy-Keen | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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