Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Football fans usually like to get just a little technical dope on the team that they watch. The only trouble with supplying them with this information seems to be that the men who write the stories know only a very little more in this department than those who read them...
...pitiful to watch the success of Bates spinners and reverses on the Harvard tackles. Gaps in the line opened up as if by magic and Morey's backs came tearing by. The Harvard tackles alternated between edging out toward the ends and pulling in toward the guards, and each time they guessed wrong. These few points are the items which Coach Adam Walsh has on his little memo, for correction this week. Refinements come only with practice and he has the raw material to work on. --By TIME...
...first diamond James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady bought cost $90. When he died in 1917 he had spent $2,000,000 on precious stones. Besides such curios as a diamond-tipped cane, he owned 30 complete sets of jeweled cuff links, studs, tie pins, fobs, watch chains, etc. A railroad man, he enjoyed blazoning the fact by wearing what became one of his most famed diamond arrangements- the Transportation Set. The diamonds of the Transportation Set have long been dispersed but last week Black, Starr & Frost -Gorham, oldtime Manhattan jewelers, put on exhibition the platinum settings from which the stones...
...lose, so that the picture is practically littered up with suspects. True to all mystery stories, the most innocent appearing and least suspected is the culprit, who finally goes mad, having perpetrated his dastardly deeds with practically unlimited resources, which include a bomb in the form of a pocket watch, a poisoned mustard jar exchanged for the genuine by a hairy hand under cover of the excitement caused by a firecracker (mind you, in the end, only one person is exposed as the murderer) and various other nefarious strategies. The most plausible offenses are the doping of the players' gloves...
There are no indications that other departments of the University contemplate undertaking similar ventures. But it is expected that they will watch the progress of the Government Department's experiment closely