Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of heated legal debate and was "finally upheld by the New York Supreme Court last month. No doubt, it has made habitual criminals think twice before committing that fourth felony. Crime was reduced in New York in 1926 for this and other reasons (migration of thugs, more alert police forces...
...Berlin. Pastor Nithack-Stahn knows of the skeletons in his congregation's closets. He knows too that the incidence of mental diseases have been increasing tremendously in all civilized countries, that in Germany, especially, post-War maladjustments have permanently deranged the minds of thousands. An astute gentleman alert to the wide interest in the subject, he wrote a play, The Mother, which was produced last week at Frankfurt-an-der-Oder...
...those who are ever alert for data with which to defend the present importance given to athletics in colleges and universities comes some interesting news from Michigan. The Battle Creek College, it is announced, has made use of its, football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron...
...shop. Thanks you entered insides purchase me this time." Cosmopolites had seen the same sort of thing done by fawning Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch...
...Negro is essentially a city dweller, inhabiting segregated districts-Harlem in New York City, the "Black Belt" (old South Side) in Chicago. Since the '80s and '90s, his industrial significance has slipped a bit; the Italians beat him out of the bootblacking business; the Scandinavians made more alert janitors; both the French and the Italians put more tasty frills into catering; labor unions dogged his way in the skilled industries. In many Northern cities there is among Negroes a greater percentage of women at work than men. Professor Dowd's chapter on the Negro in Manhattan...