Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter and John Stevens were born in Pennsylvania. Their father came from Poland (his name was Stefanick), worked a while in Pennsylvania's coal mines, moved on to Detroit, finally bought a quarter-section farm in Canada. The boys were strapping and alert. They were trained as mechanics...
Endorsing the action are Gordon W. Allport '13, associate professor of Psychology, and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. In statements last night Allport commended "the alert interest of undergraduates in the educational implications of the proposed budget cut," while Furry asserted that "Students have a natural interest in the subject and a perfect right to discuss...
Meanwhile the smoke from the fire began to fill all the corridors of the building. One alert but over-zealous student rang the alarm bell, and sent the lecture audiences pouring from every door; another called the fire department, which dutifully sent over three of its finest engines posthaste. As usual, the fire was out by the time the engines arrived. Damage: nothing but the wounded dignity of the firemen...
...there are only three groups. The groups have been rechristened "areas," but essentially the new rules of distribution are the same as those of ten years ago. The interpretations of what constitutes science are, perhaps, more lenient, but on the other hand the requirements are more complicated. An alert set of Freshman advisers and tutors will be needed to keep the bewildered students from avoiding the hated science or despised lit. course. But the system should prove to be of some help in avoiding the over concentration which has become the danger of liberal education at Harvard in the last...
...there'll be no skylarkin' in barracks.). First they had learned to march, how to shoot out their feet and straighten their knees, not plod along like civilians. And they had learned that a soldier marches with his head up (Hey, you, eyes off the deck.), is alert in obeying commands (Get going, you Camp Fire Girls.). They had been given a quick splash into military courtesy (Salute, you, this ain't Boys' Town...