Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loved to watch them. It made tears come into his eyes when they stood up and softly sung of alma mater. Gus, though he had never passed out of the eighth grade, always felt as if he were a Swanson...
...from the shrubbery into his path. One pinioned Editor Leach's arms, forced him to his knees. The other mercilessly drove his fists again &again into Editor Leach's face, closed both his eyes. The ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered sight & senses his attackers had vanished. But he found a small address book which later led to the arrest of one of the hold...
...even more interest to the layman are the estimates made by Observatory officials as to the age of the system and the number of stars contained in it. The whole system is 100,000 light years across and 1,000 light years thick, formed in the shape of a watch, according to most recent data. It contains approximately 200,000,000,000 stars as determined by their gravitational attractions, but only about one billion are within range of the most advanced photographically instruments of today; while within a radius of 6,000 light years, which is the limit...
...little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much...
...Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm when at 12:30 the forward deck suddenly erupted. By some miracle the bomb had been planted on top of a small amount of ordinary freight, had failed to set off the tons...