Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pedro harbor one day last week, headed up the California coast to join the Navy Day ceremonies in San Francisco Bay. Off Point Sur, 110 mi. south of the Golden Gate, a dense fog closed around her. Suddenly just before the 8 o'clock morning watch was called, a large brown ship loomed out of the mists across her bow. The Chicago slackened speed, veered sharply to port. The brown ship scurried across her path, disappeared into the fog. Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter Silver Palm, came plowing down...
...Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus...
...sides to the question: we cowpunchers envy college men sometimes, and I 'spect they often wish they could ride like we do. Probably some of our boys would look right awkward in evenin' clothes, but if you want to see a real pretty sight you ought to watch a few of these college bred fellahs tryin' to set a cowpony. Back where we come from, the boys don't git much chance for an edication, although some of the fellahs ridin' tonight have graduated from big colleges. You eastern boys don't get the same chance to build up your...
...letter to the CRIMSON printed in this issue an old grad of nearly forty years' standing makes the suggestion that secret practice for the football team should be abolished. At great length he points out that Harvard graduates and undergraduates should have the pleasure of watching those who represent them on the gridiron not only on Saturday afternoons, but whenever practice is being held. Whether or not he is right in supposing that "hundreds of undergraduates" would flock to Soldiers Field to watch the Varsity practice on weekday afternoons, were that permitted, is a question open to considerable doubt...
...popular movement in more disorganized nations appears in the United States as a pleasant and parliamentary suggestion. George Soule pointed out last week in the New Republic that this stream must be crossed by the administration; capital can be bearded when it is prosperous, but the gentle reformer must watch for his skin if its real security is threatened...