Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ehrlich's colleague, Dr. Robert Koch, the discoverer of the anthrax bacillus, 70-year old German Refugee Albert Basserman gives the picture's outstanding performance. The alert tilt of his head, his probing eyes, even his wary stance are an embodiment of the professional scientific skeptic, who is not unwilling to believe, but has to be shown. Once Ehrlich has shown him, he becomes a gracious, humane old man, remains professionally a skeptic...
When shrewd, alert little George Backer bought the New York Post last June, he knew that it was losing around $500,000 a year, knew also that he would have to sink more money in it. A city councilman (representing the American Labor Party) and philanthropist, president of the Jewish Telegraph Agency, George Backer at 37 was rich from the proceeds of his Manhattan real-estate business. He thought he could spare the money...
...reports of British war vessels waiting offshore to grab them changed this plan. In charge of getting the Columbus men back to the Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British were on the alert, he would try shipping them in small lots on different ships, perhaps even on the Japanese "fishing boats" with which California waters abound...
...Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon bow a whale-belly stern. The Navy, always alert for new designs, helped him experiment, started him off with an order of 13. Result: Eureka (patented...