Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...same meeting in Atlantic City last fortnight where preliminary plans were made for the merger, Dean Weigle was elected to the job. Looking younger than his 60 years, alert, square-set Dean Weigle, a longtime leader of the Federal Council, the International Council of Religious Education and a dozen similar organizations, is persuasive rather than oratorical...
Throughout the contest, the alert Crimson forwards, Joe Romane, Captain Franny Simpson, and Bill Webber succeeded in keeping the Lashmen on their heels. Harvard's zone defense system, which scored so well against M.I.T. and Brown had another good night, keeping the high scoring co-captain duet of Bill Sinnamon and Jack Kay so far away that they had few close-up shots...
...undetermined number of bombers came over an unidentified portion of an unmentioned European country, on an unstated day ('recently' is the official word for it). There was no weather. Had there been, it would have been considered a military secret. The alert sounded at no particular hour because the enemy-one hesitates to label them with a proper name-are not supposed to know the right time...
Like U. S. Congressmen, U. S. educators keep an alert ear cocked at their constituents. They seldom hear much. Aside from a noisy minority of taxpayers, patriots and zealous parents, most citizens take their schools for granted, do little kibitzing. But last week, in a Gallup poll arranged by the American Council on Education and its subsidiary, the American Youth Commission, the U. S. people told what they thought about their schools. Some findings...
Fresh from its recent defeat by the Vassar Miscellany News in which all the passes made by Dick "J. Press" Tweedy were batted down by the alert female secondary, the Eli inkslingers could offer little resistance to the CRIMSON outfit which boasts a season record of 23 wins and only two defeats...