Word: vigilancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bathing suits were provided for the customarily nude Harvard swimmers and chaperones representing both colleges kept a constant vigil. The entire "dip," including towels and bathing suits, was free...
...editor of the day, keeping his lonely vigil, thinks that perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea if he ran a picture of the President of the Debating Club, or the new member of the Phillips Brooks House Foreign Student Committee. And since the CRIMSON has a copper cut of every man in College except transfer students, it is not difficult to find the right picture...
Sturdy peasants mounted guard all night over a simple coffin which had arrived by truck. Officially the Government of dictatorial King Alexander frowns on Sarajevo's bland assassinophilia, but His Majesty's police know better than to try 'to thwart such resolute citizens. After the all-night vigil, peasants put the coffin on a cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated...
...Vagabond had long since quit his lonely vigil high up amid Mem Hall's cobwebs and dust. The atmosphere there was stifling--stifling, and this was spring. It was spring. But the Vagabond had seen many springs and spring was always the same...
...Brooklyn, neighbors found Mrs. Delia Tully, 73, keeping solitary vigil beside her four-day dead husband-"just waiting." In Kapuskasing, Ontario, neighbors found the three orphan children of Henry Myllmaa keeping solitary house, their father's corpse in the summer kitchen. Explained the children: "Father's been dead six weeks...