Word: alerte
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...alert, kinetic Scripps-Howard newspapers are constantly taking full page space in other news organs to advertise what they have done, not merely told. A recent claim is that defects in the U. S. Air Mail service which had caused the deaths of numerous pilots were remedied after a Scripps reporter had investigated and his chiefs had acted. Last week Scripps-Howard set out upon a bold, bolder, boldest crusade: trying to persuade the U. S. to pay the Civil War Debt to British investor: which was incurred and then repudiated by eight onetime Confederate States...
...available body. Not necessarily the muscles of an athlete. Good circulation, digestion, power to sleep, and alert steady nerves...
...tycoons; and no immediate prospect exists that an international nitrate trust agreement will be concluded paralleling those now affecting pot ash, industrial chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, steel & copper. The Lutzow party was a party of technicians, and therefore the great U. S. du Pont chemical interests were appropriately represented by jovial, alert Irénée du Pont, 51. Although his duties have been wholly executive for a generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous weight...
...Court inspected the young man. He seemed alert, intelligent. Sir Leo stated that his own actions on the night in question were merely to take Miss Savage, 22, whom he had known about six months, to dinner, and later to stroll & sit with her in the park. The Court looked again upon the young man, pondered, proceeded to acquit Sir Leo & Miss Savage, and lastly assessed costs of ?10 ($49) against the two too officious bobbies. As Miss Savage left the court the young man swept her into his arms and hugged...
Upon these three points alert folk fixed their attention, deeming them trustworthy guideposts for a swift survey of Afghanistan...