Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything about that. It was his lookout; it was his money...
...Napoleonic times, master of H.M.S. Lydia, who pitted his 36-gun frigate against ships twice as strong. Last fortnight, when he continued Captain Hornblower's story in Ship of the Line, it seemed likely that more readers would hear of Author Forester, and keep a lookout for him hereafter...
Psychiatrists at Chicago's Institute of Juvenile Research watched Frank Balek's performance, offered no explanation. When his eyes were tested, no visual defect was found to account for his peculiarity. Today Frank's principal, William R. Bowlin, is on the lookout for signs of inverted sight in other pupils to catch slight tendencies in that direction that can be corrected. He stands behind a child, calls him unexpectedly. If the child turns his head to the left rather than to the right to see the principal, it is considered a sign of inversionist tendencies...
...five who chanted: "Reviens, papa, demain. Demain, sans faute." Three days later he was seeing the sights of New York City, having his first airplane ride. Said he: "For eight or nine years, ever since I first saw airships flying over North Bay, Callander and Corbeil, Ont.-on the lookout for forest fires, you know-I've wanted to fly. It's the biggest thrill of my life, since the birth of the quints...
Perhaps more important than this individualization of instruction is the method of study in the seminars. Most of the work is the thesis type, where the thesis is everything. A large amount of these courses have no examinations at all. The seminars, however, are not for persons on the lookout for "snap" courses, stand-bys of the tutoring schools. For although one thesis is often the whole story, this one thesis is likely to occasion as much work as a stiff course with examinations. No outside source can help the student; he must produce his work by himself...