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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Station. They were William Wallace Atterbury, strident and aggressive president of Pennsylvania R. R.; Patrick Edward ("Pull Eighty Cars") Crowley, diffident and watchful president of New York Central R. R.; Daniel Willard, precise and conciliatory president of Baltimore & Ohio; and the Brothers Van Sweringen, urbane and alert owners of Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. Luncheon was served them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they did not trust themselves to announce it to the public. Because President Hoover had pressed them into this conference, because he was moral sponsor for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Presidents' Plan | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...doctors, the educators urge them to be alert for early signs of Cancer. Prefessor Ewing's Ncoplastic Diseases, which codifies all information accepted as reliable up to 1928, is the outstanding reference book for doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Elected A. N. A. president for next year was Lee Hastings Bristol, vice president of Bristol-Myers Co. He succeeds Bernard Lichtenberg, short, popular, alert vice president of Alexander Hamilton Institute. President Bristol is 38, first worked for Bishop Calculating Recorder Co., left this business in 1923 to tour the U. S., study retail merchandising methods and dealer reaction to window-displays; especially in the drug business. He became associated with Bristol-Myers the following year as secretary and advertising manager, was made a vice president in 1928. Bristol-Myers is a subsidiary of Drug, Inc., and among the products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A. N. A. Convention | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead who watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Will of a Poet | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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