Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily a system of supervised dormitories for men hardly represents the ideal in student living quarters. For first-year men there may be an advantage in dormitories where they can make contacts and friendships, and possibly have some. Hollywood ideas of college corrected under tactful guidance, but the watchdog attitude that a dormitory supervisor is forced to assume should certainly not be carried beyond the freshman year. It stunts the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, both of which will be of equal importance with academic achievement when the student finds himself unshielded by his alma mater...
...during the Coolidge Era, a fire). A White House guard directs him up a corridor leading off the right side of the lobby. He is eyed as he advances by a Secret Service man seated or lounging at the corridor's end. Across from this sentinel sits a watchdog, Doorman Pat McKenna. Credentials are inspected and the Job-Seeker is shown through a heavy white door into the President's No. 1 Secretary's office...
...Campbell, no doctor, but a Louisville-trained lawyer who has been a Food & Drugs Act watchdog for the Department of Agriculture for more than 20 years, has been narrowly watching the dopesters' printed promises. They have been very cautious about putting unwarranted claims upon the labels of their products, because they know that thereby they render themselves liable to prosecution, fine and imprisonment under the Food & Drugs Act. But the Act does not apply to advertisements in newspapers, magazines, brochures or handbills. And through such bypasses slick manufacturers have made their effect on people inclined to take advertising claims...
Barry O'Neill as Tony is very suave, and Anthony Bushnell the likable, self-conscious watchdog of a lover,--all of which combine to make it one of the things not to be missed...
...Wright, Auditor ("watchdog") of the Philippine Islands, to discuss. A delegation of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Market Association, to invite an address on the centenary of the Furniture Market next month...