Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME's error consisted of confusing the A. M. A. Journal's circulation (92,600) with the A. M. A.'s full membership (103,000). To alert Dr. Fishbein, regrets...
...Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons." At once every chancellory in Europe sprang to the alert, expecting some major British move behind the Nazi scenes...
...refer to co-operative cold storage lockers. They were first introduced on the Pacific Coast some five years ago when a group of alert farmers decided to preserve their own meat, fruit and vegetables the year round on a budget they could afford even in depression times...
...Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 97,000,000 Japanese which would have appeared if only they had not been left...
Wrong prices are so rare as to be almost negligible as a source of loss on the books. Montgomery Ward recalls with horror, however, that once tilt sheeting was erroneously priced at 92? instead of $9.25. A few alert customers jumped in with large orders, which were filled at the list price...