Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small balloons was the most important baggage of three young Naval officers aboard the Shipping Board liner America when she left Manhattan for Cherbourg last week. All the journey across the Atlantic, and back to Manhattan, the young men are to blow up the balloons with gas and watch them float and bob away to the limit of their tethers. While aloft the balloons will indicate upper air currents. When they are pulled back to the America's deck, self-registering thermometers on some will show upper air temperature variation. All the observations will provide facts for theses...
...loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall an international match when Hero Milburn did not play Back for the U. S four. But this year, he cannot play, must be content to watch from the sidelines, lamenting the hunting accident which lamed him last spring. And for his place, 37-year-old J. Cheever Cowdin, veteran, is battling Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, Yale star, an eight-goal...
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Once he put his entire bankroll, $327,000, on a horse and won. Sometimes he made book, sometimes he bet against the bookmakers. He had a staff of scouts and dockers but not infrequently he bet against the information they brought him. Stocky, grey-haired, he used to watch the races with a smile on his face, saying nothing. Horses he liked to bet on best, but (like all good gamblers) he would bet on anything uncertain. He started out as an accountant in England; he staked gamblers when they were down and out. Writing he found arduous...
...prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime...