Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
...wistful tones of a highly pitched voice drifted lightly through the autumnal silence of the night. A solitary figure patrolling with all the apathy of an Apted aide-de-camp in the shade of the Kirkland House quadrangle stopped suddenly alert to the alien tones that at this hour of darkness had no right, according to all the parietal rules, to issue forth from within the monastic confines of the ivy-clad Georgian depths. In a glance his trained eye had the situation in hand and his other eye began to comprehend and follow uncertain but trusting the leadership...
...night of April 2, 1932 by John F. ("Jafsie") Condon as ransom for Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. More than $5,000 of the ransom money had turned up in 716 transactions during the past two years. But no one who had received any of it had ever been alert enough to connect it with the case. License number 4U-13-41, penciled on the bill, was the one hard factual link for which the police of New York and New Jersey and the Department of Justice had been tirelessly searching for 29 months...
...sooner had the office been opened in the morning than a frenzied call was received from one of Boston's super news-hawks, the always alert type, eager for a raise in pay because he had found a good story. This young worthy in a harassed tone cried out that he had been calling the Botanical Garden, the Biological Institute, and the Arnold Arboretum, trying to find out what new construction was going on at the Herbarium. He pointed out that they all denied the construction of any "large fire-proof building" to preserve classified specimens, and in the same...
...subject selected is intimately concerned. Long before Spring rolls around the Freshman should consult with his adviser about the different fields of concentration and avail himself of every opportunity to learn more about them from upperclassmen. As he does his routine labor for his courses he should be constantly alert for any special attraction which any one subject seems to have for him. Such an interest should be examined carefully and the student might consider whether or not he would like to pursue it more profoundly and in greater detail...