Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland halfback Bill Gerety scored two touchdowns and an extra point to lead his team to its first victory, with Clarence Kramer scoring the other Kirkland touchdown. Lowell, still looking for its first score of the season, failed to get even a first down against an alert Deacon defense...
...when religion is stripped of these two features, when emphasis is placed instead upon the rich heritage of thought and value common to all sects, religion can be as much an intellectual discipline as law or mathematics, as much a rationally defensible belief as Freudianism or economic determinism. An alert intellectual community vibrates with the competition between these disciplines and beliefs, and religion deserves as much of a stake in this competition as the others...
...Education article entitled "Oceans of Piffle" [Sept. 7] has a quotation [from Alert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools] credited to the principal of a Champaign, Ill. junior high school. Since I have been the only principal of a junior high school in Champaign for 19 years, the reference must be to me. The quotation is as follows: "We shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that...
...pioneer in the automotive industry, with a prosperous General Motors distributorship based in Kansas City, Mo., Robert Greenlease was 65 when his 39-year-old wife bore him a son. The boy, Bobby, grew into an alert six-year-old who always knew what he wanted and usually got it. His kiddie car was a battery-powered jeep, scaled to his size, and his pets included a green parrot and a French poodle...
...died, four weeks ago, newsmen have been trying to find out who Vinson's successor would be. Everything pointed to Warren, but no reporter could pin down the story. Fortnight ago, when Attorney General Herbert Brownell flew to California to see Warren, the San Francisco Examiner's alert Political Editor Clint Mosher said flatly that Warren would be named to the court within 24 hours. Brownell himself threw cold water on the prediction. The afternoon he returned to Washington and saw Ike, he told reporters: "I have made no recommendation. I have no announcement to make. No statement...