Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McIntyre: Watch my fingers fly over the keyboard like a hen pecking up corn...
...father, his mother, his sister and some 200 neighbors were on hand to watch Rush graduate into the Senate. Bespectacled, wirehaired, snaggletoothed, he eagerly posed in every position cameramen could suggest, beside his birthday cake, pointing to his birthday on the calendar, at the foot of the statue of Kentucky's Henry Clay who became a Senator at 29 because the Senate did not know...
...time in their machine. Thus they hope to make the thyroid gland, the adrenals and each of the other endocrine glands yield their hormones in pure form and in such abundance that endocrinologists will no longer be obliged to haunt slaughterhouses for their supplies. Thus, too, they hope to watch hardening developing in arteries, goitres in thyroids, tuberculosis in lungs, rheumatic fever in hearts, Bright's Disease in kidneys. When that work is done they will have reached the goal which Hippocrates set for physicians 2,300 years ago. Life, disease and death will be resolved into simple factors...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...
...fact that few other cases of infantile paralysis were detected throughout the nation last week suggested that the incidence of that disease will be low this summer. However, health officers and bacteriologists are keeping close, special watch for outbreaks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those communities are significant because in Philadelphia Dr. John Albert Kolmer and in Manhattan Dr. Maurice Brodie have perfected serums against the virus which causes infantile paralysis (TIME, Nov. 26 et ante). They accomplished their work too late last year to try out their serums against any significant epidemic, are ready for eventualities this summer...