Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...June 19, 1906--This morning the University eight rowed over the four-mile course under the watch for the third time this season. The distance was covered in 20m., 10s. This is good time, but the conditions were almost perfect and a strong tide and a favoring wind were of material assistance to the boat. The Freshmen raced the University crew for the last two miles, starting a length behind, and finished three-quarters of a length ahead. The Freshman boat went as well as it has at any time this season. The University four-oar rowed over...
...Agamemnon," the first of the series of the trilogy, the hero's return from Troy is anxiously awaited at Argos. The play opens with a nocturnal view of the palace at Mycenae, from the roof of which a watchman details in picturesque prologue, the long weariness of his watch for the beacon light, that should announce the fall of Troy. At length, seeing the beacon flash out, he shouts the good news to the people in the palace, but not without a dark word of foreboding for the future. Twelve old men of Mycenae, who form the chorus, now file...
...Harvard team was strong, especially in the first half, when Cornell was unable to work any effective formations, and only scored on long running shots. In breaking away the University team was very strong, but lost many chances by not passing at the opportune moment, and by failure to watch the ball...
...That in addition to the present officials there shall be a second umpire to watch the conduct of the players...
...That the head-linesman shall keep such a position on the field as will best enable him to watch offside play, and that it shall be his special duty to watch for and penalize offside play and illegal formations...