Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German 5 is rather dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages of his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called on, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for more than ten minutes of each class...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...
...Smarter than his foppish attire would suggest, he is particularly able on the crusade type of story. Many of the crucial questions asked witnesses in the second Oil Scandal investigation (1927-28) were first written down on slips of paper by Anderson and then passed along to the less alert Senate investigators to put at the hearings...
...Berlin six foot two inch Dr. Hanfstaengl has the official job of Nazi Party spokesman to British and U. S. correspondents. During the nerve-wracking weeks of Nazi revolution he kept alert with a green bottle of smelling salts, taking great whiffs and passing the bottle freely to friends. Serene and rested last week he carried no salts, admitted that he often plays the piano for Hitler but denied the story that he does so whenever the Chancellor is tired. "If that were so I should be playing a great deal!" cried Nazi Hanfstaengl, "for he is tired often...
Coach Bert Haines has kept his Freshman alert in the same positions and anticipated a close race with the Ed beginners...