Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Again the former Andover captain was affective. Alert and moving into the play at the right instant, Pointer throttled several Northeastern scoring threats before materialization could be realized within the Yale zone...
...among them to paint pictures of their harsh hushed land and works. "It must be understood, she wrote in old age, "that my collection of Indian pictures was not done in a comfortable studio. You have got to go out and wrestle with the elements, with all your senses alert . . . You have got to hold your nose against the smell of rotten fish, and you've got to have the creeps. You must learn to feel the pride of the Indian in his ancestors, and the pinch of the cold, raw damp of the West Coast, and the smell...
...single wing play. Tony Glanelly, the sophomore fullback, has looked better and better on defense. Two weeks ago, in the Princeton game, he reached the penultimate in Ivy League football--he gained both yards from the Princeton line and praise from Coach Charley Caldwell. Glanelly's replacement is an alert junior, Dick Ochmier. Ochmler weighs only 160 pounds, but his value and ability are measured more accurately off a Toledo scale...
...small girl in grey got out, looked wistfully around, and was just stepping back in when an alert Pudding grecter grabbed her and began bubbling incomprehensibly in a Beacon Hill accent. Wiping bits of moisture from her face, she turned to a tramp who was lounging on the steps and cried, "Sitting around? Mercy! I thought you boys studied all the time!" She dashed in and I followed, but a policeman turned me away and I had to climb in a window. I ran around to the front door and asked the cop if I could...
...Lutheran." George had been an alert student, frisked through eight grades at the local one-room school in six years, graduated from York High at 16. He wanted to go to Swarthmore, but father Leader vetoed that seat of Quakerism with five words: "No, you are a Lutheran."* So George obediently went off to nearby Gettysburg College, a small (1,200 students) institution affiliated with the Lutheran Church. In his senior year he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in order to study more political science, sociology and history. He graduated in 1939, and promptly married Mary Jane Strickler...