Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years attempts have been made to use infrared radiation (invisible vibration longer in wave length than visible light) to help fog-wrapped ships at sea. Some time ago Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams experimented with infrared cameras on two U. S. ships. The alert head of Pennsylvania's State police, Commissioner Percy W. Foote, decided that infrared radiation could be utilized on land as well as on sea, asked Flavel M. Williams to help him put it to work catching traffic law violators...
...Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands would be ruinous . . . to the industry as a whole." Replied alert Agent Selznick: "I confess-indeed, I am proud-that I have substantially increased the salaries of my clients. That is precisely what I am paid...
...TIME for Jan. 31 you say the Leviathan has started on her 301st voyage. Sloppy work, fellows. I saw the same computation in newspaper dispatches, but I thought TIME was alert enough not to fall for such an obvious example of muddleheaded mathematics. The Leviathan was built in Germany, wasn...
Mooney inserted into his starting lineup Sophomores Jack Naylor and Sam Retano. Both underclassmen are last and alert but it took them a while to fit into the Varsity picture. Wednesday night they proved they were out of the apprentice class with Naylor very effective on the offense on sudden dashes and Retano outstanding on the defense...
...paper the 73 supporters of the Anti-Lynching Bill controlled nine more votes than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...