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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession moved off, Marie of Rumania gave out almost at once, had to be whisked off in the Ford. Marie of Jugoslavia, though suffering from gallstones and ulcerated teeth, trudged with visible effort the whole three miles. Young King Peter walked erect, alert but so closely surrounded by a protective square of Jugoslavian officers that at times he could not be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: 'Long Life!. Long Life! | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...must justify, must rationalize its policies, while the research and publicity bureaus which the Foreign Policy supports place an added check on the Departments arbitrary action. The more intelligent state officials appreciate the value of this function, much as judges depend upon and respond to continuous scrutiny from an alert and interested bar. For obviously the officials must act and frame policies whether disinterested outsiders watch or care...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Foreign Policy Association Explains Its Raisons d'Etre in First Article | 10/18/1934 | See Source »

...Marshall Field more than music, until last winter when the Philharmonic had to beg for its life. Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay, no longer able to take care of its deficits, refused to be its mouthpiece. President Harry Harkness Flagler became the campaign's commander, Marshall Field his gravely alert assistant. Together they underwrote the drive for $500,000. And Marshall Field became so interested in the Orchestra that he subscribed generously to the summer Stadium Concerts, went to many of them, gained a deeper understanding of Bach, Brahms, Beethoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gallantry | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists announced in Miami: "If Florida is on the alert, it will benefit to the extent of $150,000,000 a year on the film industry if Sinclair is elected." Not a whit of all this was lost on the campaign managers of Candidate Sinclair's opponents. But Wall Street was able to be amused as well as alarmed by what it called the "California-Here-I-Run" movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: California, Here I Run | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

Thus in true authoritarian style did Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles orate in Guadalajara last month. Knowing the violent anticlericalism of Mexico's Revolutionary Government, not even Roman Catholics could be surprised. But alert Catholic priests got hopping mad when they learned that U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels had later got up before a Mexican Seminar and orated as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics v. Daniels | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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