Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that undergraduates give this question their serious consideration. Those in charge may or may not be on the wrong track, but it is absolutely certain that in the long run a system which is not in accord with the peculiar development of Harvard can never be forced on an alert and thinking student body. "The House Plan" is as yet just a name. What it will be in fact depends upon the college itself, and most of all on the incoming Freshman classes. The class of 1934 can ill afford to disregard this responsibility which is placed so squarely...
...scrub-brush-headed Professor Valdemaras. Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to get in when up sprang an alert guard, ordering them to halt. Vainly did the Professor argue that he was just going to take "a little ride in the country...
Widely quoted as a bearish argument have been recent wagecuts by such large companies as Chrysler Corp. and National Cash Register Co. (10% each last month). Last week Roy Dickinson, alert associate editor of Printers' Ink (22,645 circulation, advertising trade weekly) telegraphed a list of tycoons to learn what future wage reductions may be in store. Some of the replies which he received...
Unleashed in an oak grove where truffles (warted, globular fungus growths) are found, they race madly about, start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an unusually fine animal. When keeper spies truffle, he slaps the pig on the snout with a rod, seizes the truffle, rewards the pig with a few acorns...
...Undersecretary of the Treasury, like anyone else, may be expected to take a summer vacation. Fortnight ago when Ogden Livingston Mills slipped off on the Bremen for Europe, the U. S. Press paid scant attention. Before he could land in France, however, alert newshawks in Paris were cabling dispatches to their papers that French officials believed Undersecretary Mills was coming on a special mission for President Hoover, that he was to investigate European reactions to the new Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, and also to close negotiations on the problem of France's double taxation of U. S. subsidiaries doing business...