Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden to watch the spectacle, held a strike, watched it anyway. At West Newton, a train killed Bartholomew C. Ryan on his way home from the race. On Commonwealth Avenue, one Edward Redman collapsed from a heart attack. Loudest cheers from spectators at what has been called the crudest sporting spectacle...
...almost pitifully humorous to watch the frantic manoeuvers of the New England textile owners to stem the tide which is carrying the cotton manufacturing business elsewhere. In their mad fury they hurl insults at Wallace, pile imprecations on the Administration, indeed, almost blame Providence itself because New England has ceased to be able to complete with the rising industry of the South...
Although official spring football practice ended Thursday, Dick Harlow will remain in Cambridge next week, mainly to watch the kicking contests on Wednesday. Cups are awarded for punting drop-kicking, and place-kicking supremacy...
...Park, where her father has been famed for 25 years as a trainer of racehorses for people like Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope and Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Mary Hirsch as a small girl made a habit of keeping trainers' hours. She got up at dawn to watch the workouts, helped her father's stablemen feed the horses, grew to know as much about such matters as Max Hirsch himself. In 1931, when she finished school...
...Going through McComb, Miss. (pop. 10,000), Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants last year saw a crowd of 1,000 on the station platform. Delighted, he ordered an exhibition game for McComb this spring. Last week nearly half the population jammed their little baseball park to watch the Giants thrash the Cleveland Indians, 4-to-2. Next day, the Giants played the Indians in another exhibition game in Hattiesburg, Miss, where they were greeted by a brass band, a half holiday. After five balls had been pitched in the first inning, a downpour ended the game...