Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next day alert Peorians learned that Lincoln Eyre, able correspondent of the New York Times, had cabled an interview which William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson had just given him in Berlin, Germany (TIME, April 5, GERMANY...
However, as last week's resume of a year's work performed in New York City* indicated, men (rich men occasionally) are helped out on necessity. Some 45,000 able travelers were aided in this way during the year. Many more incapable travelers were assisted by the alert young women on duty in Manhattan railroad stations, at the steamship docks, on Ellis Island...
Several students and a couple of Yard cops rushed up, on the alert for the dash of a fugitive, only to be greeted some moments later by the inquiring glances of students who swarmed from within. Trapped between two fires, the culprit was yet nowhere to be found...
...business as mere factotums. Yet this woman-she is Mary E. Dillon, in her middle thirties-spent 23 years of apprenticeship with the Brooklyn Borough Gas Co., which she now heads. A girl just out of school, she went to work as office girl, errand girl, handy girl. Alert, energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their semiweekly shirt sleeves clean...
Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson...