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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemist Calingaert predicted that U. S. industry would lose little time applying his discovery to a variety of chemical shortcuts. Last week Ethyl Gasoline's alert Vice President, Thomas Midgley Jr., compared the Calingaert discovery to a ferryboat which enabled loving but frustrated lads and lassies on opposite sides of a river to get together. "What a lot of fun we're going to have," said Mr. Midgley, "shoving that ferryboat around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Canaries & Ferryboats | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Angry Athenians | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...enough gas masks to go around, due to the Government's all-for-the-Army emergency economy) was a succession of border intrusions, in which many observers saw true Nazi rhythm. From Germany, from East Prussia, even by air from Free Danzig, came Nazi "gangs" to provoke the alert Polish guards into brief scuffles from which four deaths resulted-extreme casualties of the war of nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting of developments to a satiric debunking of the provocative propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Not Since Napoleon | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much as seen with a gun, invested 13 miles of British border. Across the way on British soil, men of the Middlesex Regiment and Rajputana Rifles lined the barbed-wire frontier, alert for Britain's territorial integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Far Eastern Front | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...where pilots stood ready to gun the 1,000-h.p. engines of 800 quick-climbing Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. The Territorial Army probed cloudbanks with searchlights, traced the paths of the invading bombers with the long snouts of their anti-aircraft guns. In London balloon barrage crews, on the alert 24 hours a day, inflated their tricky sausages and let them up 700 feet-far lower than would be needed to entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters signaled contact with the raiders by flashing lights, which were checked by staff observers. Effectiveness of the bombers and antiaircraft was recorded photographically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastland v. Westland | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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