Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pilot must use his ailerons (small auxiliary wings fixed in the back edge of the wings). When one aileron rises, its opposite drops. That gives an opposed effect which ordinarily permits banking and turning from a straight level flying course. It also overcomes spins, if the pilot is alert and maneuvers quickly. But at the stalling angle the ailerons work sluggishly when...
...meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Most of them went into the hotel to hear what the President would say. Those who did not go in either listened in or read the speech as soon as it was printed.* There was not much in the speech that any alert publisher could not have prophesied beforehand. President Hoover's biggest project is Law Enforcement. He urged the Press to be a quick public conscience to that end. Freedom of the Press to discuss public questions is a U. S. cornerstone. President Hoover acknowledged this, adding earnestly...
...strange paradox, won) the coming General Election for his party (Laborite). Insulting Frenchmen, roiling Italians, vexing U. S. statesmen and bringing tears to the eyes of His Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced him to hobbling upon two canes, given his drawn face its ascetic pallor. If he did not lash out savagely at his enemies they might treat him with a pitying consideration which he could not endure...
...Brief": The cuckoo was heard on Monday morning in the coppices at Coombe Hill, Surrey. Two items down appeared an intimation that the Duke of Gloucester, third son of His Majesty George V, had consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus fours were seen by a policeman early yesterday morning throwing coathangers over the railings of Battersea Park. When they saw the policeman they jumped into a red saloon motorcar and drove off towards Chelsea...
...this time every tentacle of the press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...