Word: watch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well as the pennies, the public funds will be in a large measure wasted. The periodic investigations of Robert, the cat, will...
...will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names are and over will be unknown to fame...
...occultation will be plainly visible to the naked eye throughout the eastern part of the United States if the evening is clear, and it will be possible to watch it closely with opera glasses. The Star Beta Capricorn, which is of the third magitude, will be found close to the dark side of the moon shortly after sunset. At the appointed time it will then disappear as it goes behind the moon. Some time later it will reappear on the illuminated side of the moon...
Tomorrow afternoon the whole student body will form as before outside of Hollis Hall at 3.30 sharp and march to Soldiers Field, headed by the University Band. Here they will watch the last open practice before the game and give the team a final send-off with cheers and songs...
...Yale game follows, a week from today, the University regulars will be given a rest, and several of them, including W. J. Murray Occ., C. A. Clark, Jr., Occ., and E. L. Casey Occ., will watch the Yale-Princeton contest at New Haven. Many of the substitutes who have not had a chance to show their ability since the early games of the season will be given an opportunity today. Placing R. K. Kane '22 at end is a change made during the last week. At the other wing M. Phinney Occ., who has not played since early...