Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence their retention if conditions warrant their being broken. But in this case there seems to be no immediate reason for breaking with the past--especially at Harvard. The cries from many of the other colleges seem mainly to have been issued by youthful iconoclasts ever on the lookout for a change...
...against death-by-violence as symbolized by the tiger. Once the orangutans loot the hunter's hut but for the most part they are mannerly, sagacious, and amusing. With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys; they swarm across rivers, run up vines, keep a lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor in the triumphant campaign against the tigers. Rango is intelligently thought out and beautifully photographed-a scientific document and a work of art at the same time, far more valuable though less exciting than the graphic Trader Horn. Best...
Always on the lookout for some compliment to TIME which I can show my friends, I have looked in vain for the above-mentioned to appear in your "one and only" newsmagazine...
...When things go wrong he stops work and plays tennis. Sometimes he works all night. He listens to a great lot of advice, disregards most of it. Sometimes his spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout for his car and swiftly warn the workers of its approach. Thus laggards will not lose their self-respect by having the boss catch them in a poker game...
...Committee on the Use of English, which keeps a check on the use of English by students, reports objectionable cases to me, but the Committee is not in any sense constantly on the lookout for cases of bad English, as has been rumored. Many of those so reported have really taken an interest in the work and continued in the course when it was no longer necessary...