Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas as athletic director. After going there, he in vented three more games: war-tug, hilo, vreille (popular only among Kansas co eds). In 1907 Dr. Naismith was replaced as Kansas basketball coach. Since then, his principal contact with the game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending grey-haired old Dr. Naismith to Berlin to see the Olympic...
First event on the program was the parade of the contestants and the ceremony of the Olympic Oath. A crowd of 50,000 gathered in the stadium below the ski jump to watch Herr Hitler, who has never sat on a bob-sled and cannot stand on skis, review the parade...
...dyed ermine suit with cloth-of-gold blouse, bought by cinemactress Claire Windsor in 1925. Magnin's will take only lines that it can handle exclusively in its territory. One of its West Coast exclusives is Hattie Carnegie gowns. Magnin keeps a buyer in Paris to watch styles, purchase creations by Lanvin, Vionnet, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Molyneux...
Umpires, like thieves and executioners, lead extrasocial lives. In public, they are customarily hated by the players whose doings they adjudicate, scorned by the crowds who watch them. In private, they follow the same itinerary as baseball players but travel on different trains, stop at different hotels. To relieve the opprobrium of their calling, which takes only six months of every year, most umpires follow more gregarious sidelines in the winter. Umpire Ernest Quigley, a National League veteran of 22 years, has a hog ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary...
Thence, I out to the Court, and very pretty it be in the snow, and along the River to watch the skating but saw no bit of beauty there; so I back to the Tower to read Kant, and by and by to bed. But Lord! How cold the sheets...