Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under direct taxation, a taxpayer knows how much he is being taxed. He is vigilant and alert and sees to it that the money is not wasted...
...accident. Macready is a most pertinent example of mens sana in corpore sano. An amateur boxing champion, five foot six in height, he weighs only about 130 pounds, has broad shoulders and a trim waist. He keeps himself in perfect condition, is always mentally and physically alert. Certainly Macready needed all his alertness, coolness and skill in his hazardous exploit of last week. On a recent night flight from Columbus, Macready found his motor dead when passing over Dayton. The usual method of gliding to safety in some field or other was impossible in the pitch dark. With his altimeter...
...world cruise, last week received high praise from Leigh C. Palmer, President of the Fleet Corporation, and from T. V. O'Connor, Chairman of the Shipping Board. Said Mr. O'Connor: "It requires but a moment's thought to see that if groups of alert young Americans visit foreign ports in an American flagship, they will, by gaining first hand information on the handling of foreign commerce, come to realize how necessary it is for America to have her own Merchant Marine...
...weight of responsibility for speeding up the cause of liberalism in American colleges therefore falls with peculiar soverity upon the undergraduates. Public opinion is sufficiently alert to condemn such obviously illiberal actions as that taken by the University of Tennessee; but the criticism of subservience and timidity among the student bodies must come from the undergraduates themselves. Certainly one effective means of causing such discussion and analysis is a constant exposure of the illiberal attitude into which, through want of mental energy and alertness collegiate bodies are likely to fall...
Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...