Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever told you that we had that sum, grossly exaggerated the fact. We have a small endowment much less than half that sum, just enough to attract sensible givers, who wish to give to a going concern, nonpartisan, courageous and non-purchasable, always alert to tackle the paramount issue. We are. able to do a vast work, if we had an endowment of a million...
Pictorials are the chief cause for a photographic staff. The normal necessities of a daily paper which in no way attempts to compete with the tabloids are not so much as to overburden, or even stimulate, two or three alert eameramen. A series of photographic review of the university will provide tutereating work for three times that number...
...amiable, phlegmatic, intuitively shrewd young Roman Catholic recently and rapidly wooed a pretty, alert, decisive young Protestant who is every bit as horsy as His Grace-and in all England there is no horsier aristocrat or plebeian than Norfolk-the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 20, daughter of the 3rd Baron...
...want that. The mere suggestion of lending abroad conjures up images of foreign entanglements. Fortunately the New Deal is wary of accepting slight payments on the defaults as an excuse for lifting the Johnson Amendment, an excuse better termed a bribe. But in addition, the New Deal should be alert to the dangers of excessive American lending abroad a second time, both because of financial risk and possible involvement in the next European conflict...
...last week the attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know...