Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true in other businesses, the larger and more progressive Companies have definite recruiting and training policies and are constantly on the lookout for college men who may enter their organization and work through the various departments...
...Hound and Horn has of late been on the lookout for material for its pages from the pens of Harvard undergraduates and its efforts in this respect achieve notable success in the current issue. Of course it has no competition on the Cambridge scene and undergraduates seldom achieve the more established reviews, but, even so, to publish a poem as distinguished as Mr. J. R. Agee's "Anne Garner" is a rare bit of luck. It is inconceivable that any editor in his right mind should reject...
...trouble, he suddenly concludes, is the "professional alumnus." The undergraduates have a more sensible attitude toward athletics and "activities" than the alumni have. But, if so, why all the pother? Can it be possible that Mr. Pringle does not really live among hungry-eyed young men on the lookout for rich wives, but merely saw the opportunity for a lively magazine article? N. Y. Herald-Tribune...
When puzzled U. S. editors cabled their doubts to Paris, the statement of M. Poincaré was irascibly repeated by his Chef de Cabinet. Thereupon a circular order was sent out by leading U. S. news services to all correspondents: "Keep on lookout for Young." As though he had been Charlie Ross, the wilfully elusive Chief Executive of two huge corporations was sought for everywhere that...
...enemy has just laid down a barrages of byrons and keats. We have sustained a number of flesh wounds. The fire seems to our lookout to be proceeding from a small protuherance on the road to Xanadu...