Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Commission on Saturday adhered to its stand on Communist teachers, it "wished also to emphasize again that citizens should be especially alert at this time to defend the essential need of their schools for freedom of teaching and learning...
...people get up too late and go to bed too late," declared Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, who usually rolls out at 2:30 A.M. and hits the hay at 9 P.M. "The nation would be greater and its people more alert mentally and physically if they got out of bed by sunup every day . . . The difference between a career and a job is the difference between forty hours a week and sixty hours a week...
With 50 "Qu' avecs" already built, the general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost of the planes I lost in my command and the training of the men killed in them...
Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...
...alert Taft machine got an early jump in a fast political maneuver. Ohio ballots now list candidates under the party label so that voters can vote a straight ticket by making one cross at the top of the ballot. Taft people saw the hazard in this for their candidate. The Democratic ticket would be headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate...