Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight days in the next two months, some 20,000,000 U. S. football addicts will pay $30,000,000 to watch 2,000 college football games. Last week the New York Morning Telegraph ran football "form charts," to make the game more intelligible to its horse-race minded readers. On 250 fields, the 1935 season got fully under way. Major developments...
...watch-dog over all student organizations, he approved their dances and other entertainments, while Mrs. Luce usually served among the patronesses. Padlocking of offending clubs was left to his discretion, but as a member of a final club himself, he gave them all tolerant treatment. As Chairman of the Committee on the Regulation of Non-Athletic Activities, he was keeper of the lists of officers and members of such groups as the Debating Council, the Dramatic Club, the Glee Club, and Instrumental Clubs, and had oversight of their functions...
...Would you like to watch me do my archery practice...
...decided to give up racing in favor of a game which his other interests had kept him too busy to play seriously since he was 10. Promptly and characteristically, he concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people to watch than those who could park their cars along the boards at the dozen or so private fields where high-goal players customarily perform, or afford to buy seats at Meadow Brook. He improved Bostwick Field at Old Westbury until it became, next to Meadow Brook, the best playing surface...
...organic and mental deterioration of civilized nations. Its members should be given a position as highly considered, as free from political intrigues and from cheap publicity, as that of the justices of the Supreme Court. Their importance would, in truth, be much greater than that of the jurists who watch over the Constitution. For they would be the defenders of the body and the soul of a great race in its tragic struggle against the blind sciences of matter...