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Word: lookout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of A. H. Stafford '26, whose sleight of hand tricks have been a great success at concerts this season, has caused the clubs to be on the lookout for a man with a specialty vaudeville act which will add to the variety of their performances. A good sleight of hand trickster or an expert juggler is especially what the clubs are looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS WILL HOLD MID-YEAR TRIALS THIS EVENING | 2/10/1925 | See Source »

After the U. S. press published the income tax figures (TIME, Nov. 3), the U. S. Department of Justice was on the lookout for a newspaper-dog or two. When the dogs were caught?or rather selected?the equivocal tax-publicity law, as set forth in the publicity clause of the Revenue Act of 1924, would be tried on them in test suits. It was a matter of interest to the public which, of thousands of available canines, the Government would select...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Woodlawn | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...chiefly asscribable to the shrewdness of John McGraw, their square-jawed manager, and to heavy financial backing. Not only has McGraw the acumen for constructing and lubricating a baseball machine but he has also been supplied with dollars sufficient to maintain a far-flung network of "scouts" on the lookout for fresh material; sufficient to purchase such material at any price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Denouement | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...NOSE, on the watch or lookout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/30/1923 | See Source »

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