Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale had been more alert and had recovered all its own fumbles and one of Harvard's which led directly to Yale's score. At the very moment when Harvard seemed to have at last placed itself in position to score, Yale snatched its opportunity and scored its first touchdown in the Stadium since...
...French press, always on the alert for new manifestations of German guile, " discovered " through the newspaper Liberté that the Germans are disseminating anti-French propaganda among British and American tourists through Spanish, Italian, Greek, English, German guides in Paris. According to Liberte, tourists at Versailles hear tirades against the Treaty of Versailles; tourists on the battlefields hear of the valor of the German troops. Liberté asserts that guides tear up Allied flags in the cemeteries and sell strips as souvenirs. Thus " Papa Poincaré " has another German menace to combat...
...subject. During the summers of his college years, he and his brother made expeditions into the Maine woods and there learned the rudiments of out-door life which he put into practice later in Africa and his famous hunting expeditions in other countries. His observing faculties were always keenly alert in spite of his nearsightedness...
...what a convincing and enthusiastic demonstration it was. Besides all the events of an American track meet there were tournaments in volley ball, tennis, basketball, soccer and a cross-country run. The student, instead of being the old long-coated dignified and often tubercular scholar, stood revealed as the alert, energetic, quick and strong youth in his trim looking track suit, who had learned all the lessons of self-control, self-discipline and team play which China needs so much today. The four hundred odd entries from some twenty-five schools experienced the need for adequate training and the exertion...
America's female Bar?wholesome, pleasant, alert, girlish or gray-haired, motherly-looking or businesslike...