Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better students preferred University teaching or non-academic pursuits. Many able women took up teaching without reluctance and made notable contributions, but a preponderance of woman teachers has its disadvantages. Nothing could do more to elevate the standards of secondary education than an increase in the number of alert intelligent male teachers...
...every TIME-reader should know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died, aged 71, in July, 1930 (TIME, July 14, 1930), whereas Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. 80, was alive and alert enough last July to felicitate Nikola Tesla on the latter's 75th birthday (TIME, July 20), has not died since...
...tear down. The American system of economics and government is everlasting. . . . Let us restore and at the same time remodel. The times call for a leadership which insists on the permanence of our fundamental institutions. . . . The mistakes of the past call for ... a leadership, practical, sound, courageous and alert...
...glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's tumble-toy, glass-stoppered carafes full of plain water and, in neat piles, hundreds of sheets of foolscap (see cut). Thus equipped the 14 men around the table (twelve august finance experts, two alert interpreters) have been toiling and quarreling as the Young Plan Advisory Committee on Germany's capacity-to-pay (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week they destroyed their first report, which had left them frostily at odds around their oval table. Then, spurred by the approach of Christmas, they swiftly drafted...
Should Protestant churches be represented by independent or controlled publications? Said The Advance: "Alert Presbyterians would do well to face that issue squarely before it is too late...