Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly not an alert railroad but an interesting one is the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington...
...more suited for night work for a man hard pressed for time than are many non-scientific courses. Obviously a man cannot "relax in the lab" every evening instead of getting his usual eight hours, but at least the physical movement entailed will help to keep his mind alert and on the job at hand. When these matters are taken into account, it might be considered more pertinent to close the libraries in the evenings than the various laboratories...
...fuse of Author March's time-bomb burns down slowly. Written in a slow, subdued prose that sometimes suggests that of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes that of William Faulkner in his less melodramatic moments, The Tallons is the work of a novelist whose increasingly powerful talent most alert readers will want to watch. Born in Mobile, Ala. in 1894, William March, whose real name is William E. March Campbell, published his first novel, Company K, three years ago, followed it with a strong but uneven study of the psychological effects of a lynching in Come in at the Door. Educated...
...offered by an alert railroad is an "Off the Beaten Path" junket with excursionists riding in the locomotive cab or perched on miniature bleachers built into the tender...
...meant business was shown when the Soviet State Bank immediately, upon the opening of international exchange in Wall Street, after M. Auriol's statement last week, dumped overboard $5,000,000 in sterling pounds with orders to sell them for whatever they would bring in dollars. Secretary Morgenthau, alert at his desk in Washington, instantly used the $2,000,000,000 U. S. stabilization fund to buy the British money offered by the Bolsheviks. He then angrily exploded to Washington correspondents whom he hastily summoned, asking them to flash news of what he had done throughout the world. This...