Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is to be commended and congratulated on its alert, comprehensive art reviews, which bring the man in the street into museums and art galleries...
...told them that the cost of social pioneer ventures like Arthurdale "we justifiably charge off as the inevitable cost of all progress."* A better investment for taxpayers he could not conceive than "able, alert, competent and up-to-date people." And now, "How should taxes be paid...
Neither Indian Commissioner Collier nor Secretary Ickes showed up in Atlantic City, as the conference had hoped, to defend their work. Mr. Collier sent a message, in which he ducked religious issues, said his bureau is hampered by "a thousand antiquities," begged the co-operation of alert citizens, for "Indians will always have neighbors who stand to profit by despoiling whatever little property they may have, and debauching them as human beings...
...Randall emphasized the extent to which law and order break down under strike conditions and said that there should be no need for armed forces in plants. "Mobs don't defy order; they destroy it. The responsibility rests on an alert public which can insist upon an orderly government," he said...
...company virtually insolvent. Dick Whitney asked for an extension of time. This naturally piqued the Exchange's curiosity. When the Whitney report arrived, the Exchange scrutinized it carefully and immediately sent its own accountant over to the Whitney offices to verify the figures. What made the Exchange so alert it would not reveal last week, but there was good reason to suppose that some of the Governors already suspected Whitney irregularities.* In November Governor Edward Henry Harriman Simmons had had difficulty getting Whitney to return certain securities of the Exchange Gratuity Fund...