Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since radio became the No. 1 U. S. political hustings, politics has been no place or a marble mouth. Last week Radio Guide, most alert of the radio fan magazines, looked seven of the favorites in 1940's Presidential race straight in the teeth, volunteered its opinion of the seven as radiorators...
...patient had been addicted [to narcotics] before he came to me, mainly because he was suffering from three chronic ailments. . . . Although Fred Barrick was an addict he was a chronic, continually sick man; however, when relieved [by morphine] he was of phenomenally acute, alert, clear and competent mentality. . . . I believe I am right and loyal to my profession in relieving him or anyone . . . if thereby I can save him to some useful purpose. . . . The extraordinary tolerance the man had for gluttonous dosage [often 20 grains a day] was . . . so marvelous that his case deserves my future recording...
...reason why U. S. rural dwellers get poorer medical care than their city cousins is the backwardness of the average country doctor, who does little to keep up with the rapid progress of medicine. Alert young physicians no longer settle in the country, and, according to Associate Professor of Medicine John Barlow Youmans of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, 10% to 20% of country doctors "will not take postgraduate training on their own initiative, even when opportunities are available...
...American Airways (of which Lindbergh is technical adviser) inaugurated the first transatlantic mail service. In the hold of the Clipper were 112,574 pieces (1,603 Ibs.) of mail, mostly from collectors (rate: 30? a half ounce), and a box of four dozen California marigolds for Queen Mary. Alert at her crew stations, or lolling in the luxurious cabins were 16 Pan Am employes...
...distinction of having discovered the modern paint gun as an artistic implement. In 1923, when Pontiac, Mich, produced the first automobile (an Oakland) ever finished by being sprayed with quick-drying lacquer, the spray gun took its place among the garage man's favorite toys. Always alert to industry, Artist Siqueiros considered it more than a toy, urged its use for murals. Neither Siqueiros himself nor other muralists have actually done much with it. But last week in Manhattan two trigger men appeared with demonstrations of what a spray...