Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Play Alert Football...
Michigan football teams have piled up winning records because they played alert football. They made fewer mistakes than their opponents. They took advantage of the opposing team's mistakes...
Giving a reverse twist to the same basic idea, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (5,200 stores in the midwest) approached publishers last year with the proposal: "The average chain grocery is handier to the home than the average drug store. Why not sell through us?" Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name...
...appeasing their own consciences. In acting beyond this, they are doing the University, whose fair name they are so assiduously attempting to clear, grievous injury. No possible good can come from dragging an already unsavoury story out for more publicity and unfavorable comment by a press always on the alert to give Harvard a black...
Into the White House last week marched alert, industrious Nicholas Roosevelt of New York as Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. A few minutes later he went marching out again as U. S. Minister to Hungary. Between those two marches lay the solution to one of President Hoover's touchiest appointive jobs. With adroit conciliatory hands the President had reshuffled his cards, dealt a moral victory to the native politicos of the Philippines, to Mr. Roosevelt a face-saving promotion, to his own Administration a neat out. Other simultaneous dealings included the acceptance of the resignation of Leland Harrison...