Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, the high tariff on sugar (a Republican measure) gave Chairman Cordell Hull of the Democratic National Committee a chance to abuse the Republicans for passing it and thus making sugar speculation behind the tariff wall both tempting and safe. President Harding, alert and cautious fearing that there might perhaps be something rotten in the state of Fordney-McCumberism, promptly ordered an investigation of the situation by the Federal Tariff Commission (which had already started one of its own) to see if he would be authorized to reduce the sugar duty as provided by the law. As the investigation will...
...better if, instead of a lecture schedule in his mind, the student rose each morning with the thought of the day before him for uninterrupted study, writing and thinking? He would then have an opportunity to do his mental work when his mind was in its most active and alert condition. During the middle of the afternoon he might go out for his athletics (or sports) and have his social relaxation at tea and dinner. Then at seven-thirty or eight he might attend his lectures and classes, which with his laboratory, might last until eleven or eleven-thirty...
...best American schools. Further in vision I see one hundred American boys spending a year in the five foreign environments from which our guests have come. I believe that a boy of seventeen or eighteen, who has pretty well finished his preparation for the university, who is mature, alert and reliable, could to very great advantage spend a year in Europe or the Orient. And I also believe that the same type of boy from foreign countries could derive great socializing advantages from a year spent under the best American conditions...
Disclosing a remarkable attack and an alert defence, the Tilton Seminary basketball team defeated the 1926 team by the score of 23-22 Saturday afternoon at the Freshman Athletic Building. At first the fast three-man attack of the New Hampshire team was checked by the Freshman five-man defence, but soon Smith, the Tilton center, and Simpson, forward, piled up 16 points in a series of long shots. Four of Smith's goals were made from the center of the floor. Unprotected passing and inaccurate shots at the basket kept the Freshman score for the first half down...
...university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew nothing of navigation and naval technique was of less importance than that "their minds were alert, their hearts filled with an intense enthusiasm for the cause, their souls clean, and their bodies ready for the most exhausting tasks. So much was I in pressed by the demonstration of the ability of these young men and their ready initiative in responding to training that whenever...