Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: IF TIME LIVED ON AN RED ROUTE WHERE ROADS ARE ONLY A NAME IT WOULD PROBABLY BE FAMILIAR WITH THE 20-INCH WHEEL HIGH ROAD CLEARANCE PLYMOUTH. YOU MAY BE SURE SHARSMITHS PRAYERS AND REQUIREMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN FULLY ANSWERED BY ALERT CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH DEALER BY THE TIME THIS WIRE REACHES YOUR COLUMN...
...ahead of last year's as it should be in view of the team's prowess, irritate its owner, Chicago's Major Frederic McLaughlin who attends Black Hawks' games with his famed wife, Irene Castle McLaughlin. On Goaltender Chabot, disdainful, lazy and alert, they have no effect whatever. Occupied entirely with his job of making saves-i. e. keeping the puck out of the goal-Chabot is irritated only when he fails to do so. Last fortnight he clubbed a goal judge with his hockey stick for daring to assert that his opponents had contrived...
...Boston American to interview Harvard professors for the purpose of asking them to make statements supporting communism have met with little success, since the publicity which has attended the recent Hearst attacks on communism at Syracuse and Columbia has put college professors throughout the country on the alert against falling victim to such newspaper tactics...
...alert, responsive students, among whom would be numbered all candidates for honors, and probably others whose work was better than average and who might conceivably become candidates for honors, would be given preferred rating as "tutorial men." Throughout the remainder of their college careers they would receive the fullest measure of tutorial instruction provided they continued to justify their preferment. To them the tutor would henceforth dedicate most of his time and energy, in an effort to bring their aptitude for scholarship to its finest flowering. As these students developed their capacity for independent, self-directed study, they should, upon...
...crowing reached the alert ears of Alfred Emanuel Smith on the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. As chairman of the advisory committee of the Legion of Decency which is making cinema companies toe the mark (TIME, June 11, et seq.), Mr. Smith called for a copy of the law Mr. Burke considered so exemplary. It read: "A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any other place where others are present, or procures another so to expose himself is guilty of a misdemeanor...