Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been in a train all year. ... If you see an interesting tower or castle on the horizon, even if it is 20 or 30 miles away, you can go over and have a look at it. If you are flying over the seashore, you can fly low and watch people bathing. That is the kind of thing we propose doing. It doesn't matter if it takes us off our course. We will find it right away again...
...screen glowed pinkishly; a loud speaker in the same room susurrated A human head appeared on the screen, tiny and wraithlike: its lips moved; simultaneously the loud speaker squawked words. Another head appeared; more words. Hands replaced heads, gestured, poured a liquid, shot a gun, wound a watch; the speaker gurgled, crashed, crackled...
...President Coolidge took leave of Wisconsin in three ways: He invited the newsgatherers and photographers to watch him shoot clay pigeons (29 out of 37); he arranged for a simple farewell speech on the steps of the high school in Superior; he fished in the law-immune trout pools of the Pierce Estate every last moment that he could, letting others pack the trunks...
Died. Robert Hawley Ingersoll, 68, originator of the dollar watch; of Bright's disease; in Denver, Colo. It is estimated that over 70,000,000 Ingersoll watches have been manufactured. Wartime conditions made the dollar watch an impossibility; in 1921 the Ingersoll brothers became bankrupt; their factory has since been purchased by the Waterbury Clock...
...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...