Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly Artist David painted a round arch because he liked it better. Much more probably he was guilty of a confusion common when scholarly enthusiasm was seldom reinforced by research. An anachronism unmentioned by alert Reader Weinberg: an inkwell with a hinged top. However. Artist David was careful to paint a krater (drinking-bowl) of the right shape, a lamp of the right proportion, a chain with figure-eight links, and a pen & scroll of correct design. He followed convention in putting curly hair on Socrates and all his companions...
...Other alert Readers who recognized the source of Mme Celarié's story were: James W. Gaynor, Albany, N. Y.; Howard Hildebrand, Lisbon, Ohio; Lee Keidel, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; James L. Stern, Philadelphia; Nelson H. Brooks, New Haven, Conn.; Cyril J. Bath, Cleveland; Edward H. Sapt Jr., Wenonah, N. J.; Gerald V. Strang, Berkeley, Calif.; David H. Shearer, Rochester, N. Y.; Q. L. Quinlivan, Arlington, N. J.; W. A. Gardner, Evanston, 111., Lewis C. Hawkins, Fair Haven...
...Clarence True Wilson, publicly criticizing the personnel of the Wickersham Commission, characterized Commissioner Ada Comstock as "President of a woman's college [Radcliffe] which has been known as one of the wettest and one of the smokiest. . . ." **By sudden, unexpected fire drills at dead of night do alert Mt. Holyoke officials sometimes check up on their students' whereabouts...
...circulation" have already, according to Mr. Castle, made more than $3,000,000. Other producers have been reluctant to conduct similar experiments in the belief that exhibitors would resent them, attendance fall off. But RKO, affiliated with Radio Corp. of America, is thought to be on the fence. And alert reviewers have observed that recent Fox newsreels have contained enticing views of Cunard week-end tours and Cunard boat launchings which could easily have been construed as advertising...
...plant. When he reached the Cape, the job was gone. Desperate, he took a position with a hunting party catching and taming wild animals for zoos. Among the beasts he dealt with (and later described in books) was the native buffalo. He observed that it was beefy, was more alert- charging buffalo, unlike charging domestic bulls, never close their eyes. Also, the buffalo is less susceptible to diseases than any sort of domestic cow. But it is wholly unmanageable. Therefore, the Hubbard notion: to breed a new kind of cattle, almost as mild as the cow, almost as diseaseless...