Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the city, asking every person old or young, 'Who struck Billy Patterson?' The policemen soon retired, but the question was caught up by hundreds of lips, and the query soon found a place in the daily journals, whence it spread with electric rapidity through all parts of the Union...
...through to the U. S. Perched on the pinnacle of Kehlstein Mountain, the house itself is comparatively small, consists mainly of one large circular room lined, except for a spot near the fireplace, with large windows. There are also a guard room, an electrically operated kitchen, and a balcony lookout. It is 6,000 feet above sea level, commands superb views of Bavaria and old Austria by night and day. The winds howl around it continually, white clouds float...
...Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly in the Pew family oil business (Sun Oil Co.), and who by Governor James's first executive order became an Admiral of the Pennsylvania Navy. Admiral Estes has leased a home in Harrisburg, where the Pews can use a good lookout...
...March of Time, which opens at the University tomorrow, is a comprehensive and intelligent piece of reporting. Although the audience expects to see nothing but the underground forts which Minister of War Andre Maginot began in 1928, exclusive interior shots--of mess halls, shower rooms, gun turrets and lookout posts--form less than half the picture, for the title refers to the whole military organization of a peace-time democracy. The Government's solution of how to make a people militarized but not militaristic is well shown with pictures of the drab uniforms and hard work that go with "service...
Although he doesn't intend to assign additional men to the House district, Apted said that special locks or higher grills would probably be installed where needed. Certain that the crimes were perpetrated by youthful vandals, the Yard policy forces are on the lookout for the better known younger Cantabrigians...