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Word: watchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pagan temple, a Chinese junk, a U. S. pickaninny. Of all the well-chosen, well-reproduced photographs, the one most likely to cause pause is captioned: "Taxi? Here is the Mongolian version of the taxicab, with its toothless and carefree Jehu. Outer Mongolia presents many problems. . . . But its missioners watch and wait patiently- a policy borne out by the Church's 20 centuries of mission experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Penny Roto | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Rules. New football regulations this year are based on the premise that crowds want to watch an open game. Forward passing is favored with a ball an inch thinner than last year. The first incomplete forward pass across the goal line (except on fourth down) no longer causes loss of the ball. The 5-yd. set-back for two incomplete passes in one series of downs has been removed. Because coaches last year decided that the defense had too many advantages, another rule, designed to popularize quick kicks, permits a punter to have a teammate hold the ball in position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Open Season | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...only one who found the tossing of the ship disturbing...Craig Woodruff furnished the humor on the journey, and caused Frank Owen, one of the two sophomores no little consternation on the bus trip home. He was careful to warn the lady setting beside Owen continually to watch her pocketbook. BY TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...Then came the fatel night I was caught. In Leverett House I met the meanest student at Harvard. I tried to sell him and failed because he was on the watch for me. As soon as I left him he called up the front gate and described me. At last they had me cornered. I did not know he had called at the front gate I want to the next entry and sold a few over there and as I was coming down the steps this same student comes running out to me and tells me a students wants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Mag" Salesman Tells Of "Spieling" Students' Til Trapped By Apted's Men | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...will watch the hawk with an indifferent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets Old & New | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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