Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said New York City Fireman John Kempf who was a passenger. But then his watch might have stopped during the night. At 1 a. m., said another passenger; at 1:10 a. m., said a third who saw people stamping out a wastepaper fire in the writing room. At 2:55 a. m., said a smoke-room steward who found a blaze in a writing room locker...
What may happen at a Nazi reception can never be predicted in advance. Last summer General Goring gave a garden party at which diplomats and their ladies were asked to watch the mating of a bull and several cows while Host Goring dwelt on "the importance of pure blood in breeding German animals...
...fretful hours wondering if there will be 11 men to send into the Yale game. With Bates, Brown, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Army and Princeton in a row the schedule-makers have done a job second only to those at Yale. It will be a sorry sight this fall to watch the two bedraggled outfits, like tired gladiators battling it out in the Yale Bowl...
...expressed sympathy for those who are in charge of certain survey courses belaboured by the Guide. "What can the poor devils do?" he asked. However, his applause was too emphatic for quotation as he read some of the outspoken quips, and the group which had gathered around to watch the great man's reaction quivered with anticipation as he turned the page to "History 1," the course which all recent graduates associate so vividly with Professor Merriman...
...what, except for their brotherhood, is their most conspicuous bond-General Motors. Fred, the eldest, the richest, and the spokesman for the other six Fishers, and Charles suddenly resigned from GM to spend more time on their personal business. That left four Fishers to build the bodies and watch over the vast Fisher investment in the biggest U. S. motor company. (Brother Howard, 34, baby of the family, works for Fisher & Co., the family holding company which is supposed to hold between $100,000,000 and $500,000,000.) Having sold the automobile industry the idea of closed models instead...