Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good rule to watch everybody; the honest man may be careless...
...mixed crowd jammed the three sides of Mussey's amphitheatre on Chicago's South Wabash Avenue one night last week to watch two men in dinner jackets and soft shirts play for the pocket billiard (pool) championship of the world. "Quiet Please" signs were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel...
Next precedent broken occurred when, after receiving the Congressional delegation including Speaker and Mrs. Rainey (blue satin), Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom (violet blue crushed velvet) et al., the President retired upstairs. Mrs. Roosevelt, unlike other First Ladies, remained behind to watch the dancing. Instead of giving the guests ice water for refreshments, the Roosevelts had fruit punch and cake served in the State Dining Room...
That disease, despite the magic incantations of Senator Wagner and the Industrial Labour Board, is approaching crisis. Strikes and lockouts are symptoms of it which only the "ignorant and uninformed" can watch untroubled. The Yale branch of the National Student League may have been rash, although I do not think so; they may have risked their academic futures too recklessly, although we must respect them for doing...
Without economics and sociology standing watch, the conclusions of economic geography would be valueless; the point of view of the geography is so restricted that he can never be more than a minor factor in the truths with which he deals...