Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principal Sidwell is a robust, alert pedagog at 74. He putters at his two farms in Maryland, admires the domestic allotment plan of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace who has a boy and girl in the school. Some other Friends' parents: Newton D. Baker, Herbert Hoover, President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland. Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington. Mr. Justice George Sutherland has a grandson at Friends'. Charles Augustus Lindbergh used to play in the gravel yard of the schoolhouse on I Street and Archibald Roosevelt, Princess Chichibu of Japan and Minister to China Nelson Trusler...
...TIME, Sept. 28; Oct. 12, 1931). The Boston Globe scored a "beat" on the appointment, began at once reporting that Dean Murdock was being groomed for the presidency. Later other candidates were discussed over Boston tea tables, but Dean Murdock seemed to be ahead-until last week, Then the alert Globe reported a dark horse and scored another "beat." The Globe reported, the Harvard Corporation nominated, and the Harvard Overseers were sure to accept, James Bryant ("Jim") Conant, 40, as Harvard's 25th president. The choice reflected a decision in favor of oldtime. hard-driving intellect over new style...
...included an hour's discussion on labeling eggs, a speech to abolish schools for a few years because "If my children ain't inherited enough intelligence from me and my wife they ain't deservin' no schoolin'," occasional outbursts of profanity (promptly excluded by alert control operators), learned and informative debate and a Senate committee hearing on a 3.2 % beer bill...
...contacts among the tutees in a group would prove mutually valuable in most cases, and an alert tutor could easily evoke friendly rivalry which would have a very salutary effect upon the mental activity of the participants. But indeed, from the point of view of more technical educational theory, the method of the small class is known to be more successful than the method of individual instruction when matters of general background, rather than of specialized detail, are to be discussed; and the sophomore tutorial work has precisely this object in mind. (Name withheld by request...
...depends entirely on how well their portfolios were managed. Best Co. set out to value insurance company assets on market prices, found that fire and marine insurance companies were in good shape with a large margin of safety, a number of casualty companies with much smaller margins of safety. Alert insurance brokers were busy last week shifting their clients from weak companies to strong ones...