Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entered at this point Torgsin's alert Sklar. His chain stores, he said, would be glad to hunt discreetly for the 21,000 policy holders. Moreover no dollars would have to be paid to any policy holder. Torgsin would take the $3,000,000 from New York Life Insurance Co. Torgsin would present the policy holders with Torgsin "purchase orders" equivalent to the sums due them. Without touching or hoarding a forbidden dollar, policy holders would get their due in Torgsin goods...
...will follow as a rule, though not invariably. The question is, therefore, under what system the young freshman is likely to catch fire soonest. If the situation is visualized as lying between Professor Fossil droning away in his lecture room over the heads of 300 young undergraduates, and thirty alert and eager young tutors taking hold of that freshman mass in groups of ten individuals, then there is little doubt whence the greater urge will come. But it is far from always being Professor Fossil on the one hand and thirty young Mark Hopkinses on the other hand...
Press On Sirs: Kiwanians of the McKanArk district, alert to the need of a timely gesture of courage in the face of the business depression properly to launch their convention at Joplin, chose a TiMEly method when Convention Committee Chairman Harry Horner of Wichita arose at the start of the initial session and read from TIME, Sept. 21 issue, The Presidency, the full article from which the following are excerpts: "At 4 p.m. one hot day last week President Hoover kept his regular appointment with the Press. . . . The U. S. public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship...
Many a leader had hoped to defer dismission until later during the two-week convention. Back in their hotels, the delegates talked excitedly. Alert newshawks heard them describe the opening sermons as "poor taste," "party politics," and "Jesuitical cunning." Some felt that Bishop Furse's reference to companionate marriage was "a discourteous slap against Judge Lindsey in his home town...
...skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made-to-order glass eyes. After a little further grooming Ador Tipp Topp stood last week as big and alert as ever he looked at a kennel show...