Word: alerte
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...part in the field work until towards the end. And yet he never stood upon the platform of Sanders Theatre to make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates...
...Regiment, alert and strong...
...should he ignore us and send his pirates up the Charles, we are ready. The Regiment has its Krags, the Pup is in commission. So, stropping our bayonets, we shall stand alert. Bring them...
...Americans know it and submit to it? Upon that system as it is now applied rests the country's safety from internal foes. The time has come to extend it in such a manner that it will protect the nation from external attack. Shall we Americans be less alert in protecting our institutions from foreign enemies than we are in guarding those institutions from ourselves...
...universities of the Middle West are just as alert as the great private colleges and institutions in the East. There is, perhaps, one difference, for the state universities which are required to have some military training, and have accordingly been accustomed to the preparedness movement, are not quite so upset over the developments of the last two months...