Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arabia several years ago Lytle White, a student from Howard College at Birmingham, Ala.,* became chummy with Sheik Farced J. Imam. After his return home White received a letter from his friend, who "in his usual sparkling way suggested that I (White) befriend him by being on the alert for a beautiful and competent girl, who might be purchased to honor the position as chief wife of his harem...
...Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. executor of the Rhodes Trust, knocked on the door of Parliament and had the Trust amended to establish eight districts of six States with twelve scholarships apiece, an arrangement which has since eliminated many an indifferent backwoods candidate. Last week alert Trustee Aydelotte was fittingly rewarded for this and other Rhodes services when Oxford University made him an honorary Doctor of Civil...
...Fishbein. At various times, various types of doctors have personified the American Medical Association. At one time it was a William Osler, learned, sympathetic bedside physician. At another time it was an austere, didactic experimenter like Simon Flexner. Now it is worldly, alert Dr. Morris Fishbein who writes 15,000 words a week, makes 130 speeches a year, edits the A. M. A. Journal and Hygeia, manages nine A. M. A. special journals, is publishing a book Syphilis next month, is finishing Diet & Health and Curiosities of Medicine for publication this autumn. He syndicates a health column to 700 newspapers...
Incredibly wrinkled, wasted to less than 100 lb., old Mr. Rockefeller was alert to the end. His hearing was unimpaired, his sight good, most of his teeth sound. He liked to chat on the latest in finance or politics, kept in touch with oil business almost daily. About the only thing he refused to discuss was Rockefeller Center. He thought his son's Manhattan pile was close to sheer folly...
Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...