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Word: watchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground. Furthermore, they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches get stagnant and mosquito-filled. It is hoped and expected that from Palos Park's hole in the ground no single adult mosquito will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ditches & Itches | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...York the student engineers will go under air pressure to watch the construction of the Lincoln Tunnel. The trip will close on Tuesday evening, April 5, with a banquet at the Harvard Club of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Society Views Films on Oil Lubrication | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

...Lowman, one of the League's high scorers last year, started the season off in brilliant form. Opposing guards were instructed to watch him closely with the result that Lowman's effectiveness dropped rapidly and at present he is far from top form. Due to his early season shooting, Lowman has a total second only to Herrick with 107 points, to these, 43 were made in league competition. At present Fesler has been replacing Lowman with either Arnie Litman or Fred Heckel until he breaks out of his slump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

...Hockey, basketball and track are all in the major qualification. Interest in a sport shown by its participants and by its followers is the criterion by which it is classed as major or minor, and because of the number of people who use the pool and the number who watch the meets swimming deserves to be elevated to the level of hockey, basketball and track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE STUDENT COUNCIL | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

...smelling-salts bottle and a future son. Although Rasonski got a vast Polish estate out of it and married Dzjunka, the knowledge of her infidelity turned him into a Napoleon hater, a valued Russian spy; inspired him with the cunning strategy of tormenting his wife by keeping a close watch over her, repaying her rebuffs and infidelities with perfect gallantry (meanwhile sublimating his venom by torturing his serfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery Pole | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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