Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans at Sea. The German surface fleet, after its single offensive use in Norway, has done a good but negative job. By its presence in northern waters it long immobilized British and U.S. forces four times its size. By keeping the British Home Fleet always on the alert in home waters, and by putting its offensive emphasis on submarines, it almost won the Battle of the Atlantic, contributed largely to German and Italian dominance of the Mediterranean in 1939-42. But, tactically, German Admirals Raeder and Doenitz have lost some great ships (Graf Spee, Bismarck, Blucher, etc.) in questionable actions...
...tale goes, 22-year-old Molotov fell in love with a girl in a boarding school. Climbing over a fence to meet his inamorata, he was captured by an alert guard. The price of the romance was expulsion from the university, later rescinded...
Robert Haines, Deputy Air Raid Warden, called last night's activities most successful. "From control centers the services showed that they were extremely well constructed," he said. "The wardens were alert, on the job, and turned in their reports promptly. The navy unit located in the Yard was present with its services ready for the sudden emergency. On the whole it shows the ARP personnel at Harvard is well organized to meet an air raid...
...Colgate University sleep investigator Donald A. Laird found that people awakened after four hours' sleep were just as alert, well-coordinated physically and resistant to fatigue as those who slept eight hours (but they did lose in accuracy and concentration...
...years Fuller thus averaged two hours of sleep in 24. Result: "The most vigorous and alert condition I have ever enjoyed." Life-insurance doctors who examined him found him sound as a nut. Eventually he had to quit because his schedule conflicted with that of his business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men. Now working for the Foreign Economic Administration, Buckminster Fuller finds Dymaxion working and sleeping out of the question. But he wishes the nation's "key thinkers" could adopt his schedule; he is convinced it would shorten...