Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went to Europe. When he got back his job was gone...
...hunting trip. Indeed the main purpose of every serious current Arctic expedition is to record weather conditions. Both the British and the Germans have had parties on the Greenland ice cap all winter. The German leader. Professor Alfred Wegener, is now considered dead (TIME, May 18). The isolated British watcher, Augustine Courtauld, feared dead, was reported safe last fortnight. Packing up in Manhattan is the Williams American Polar Expedition, under Flavel Manley Williams, retired Navy officer. The Williams party will go to northern Greenland where they will set up a strong radio station. The station will collect and relay weather...
Similarly there is a question as to whether C. H. Hageman '33, previously a regular, or W. A. Huppuch '33, will be first on the floor in the coming game. Watcher feels that with these changes he will produce a quintet of greater accuracy in defence work, but able to capitalize scoring opportunities which in past games have been neglected...
...stargazers that this year the Leonid meteor display will be the most brilliant since 1866. Star lovers who want to see the cosmic fireworks will have to stay up late during the first week of November, watch from midnight on without blinking. One blink may cause the watcher to miss a meteor which shines for less than 1 sec. Best astronomical advice is to keep an eye upon the constellation Leo (south of the Big Dipper) from which the darting points of light will seem to come...
...watcher Webb is correct, the U. S. Department of Agriculture in error...