Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caboose is where the freight train crew travels. Its cupola was created for two brakemen, one on each side, not to watch for hoboes, but to see that the long line of swaying cars functions properly. Higher cars have lately obstructed the view, forced brakemen to crane far out. Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions...
...without a hitch, except for the fact that the Baby Whale, the official coaching boat for the day, balked in indignation at the new innovation. With Bolles safely installed aboard, attempts to start the outboard motor proved of no avail. A large crowd assembled on Larz Anderson Bridge to watch the struggle with great glee. Steady cranking accomplished nothing until the flash of distant oars was seen. Then the motor took heart and started, all too late, however, for the crews were just returning...
...tall, likeable graduate of Virginia who had turned professional came to Cambridge to try and build up the sport of boxing here: and last year when the Army came to town for a match, the greatest crowd in the history of minor sports filled the Indoor Athletic Building to watch the fun. It was a remarkable tribute to another of Harvard's popular coaching family...
...have not yet retired. Watch me and see. The statement that we have an endowment of $250,000, would, if it were true, cut off the support of the small givers, who for 42 years have been the backbone of our aggressive organization...
...basis of these old and eminently reasonable arguments, the President made his proposals: Let the Chief Justice have power to assign temporarily lower court justices from one court to another when dockets grow crowded. Let the Supreme Court have a new officer, a $10,000-a-year "proctor" to watch for congestion in the lower courts and recommend transfers of judges and other steps to relieve it. Let any decision on the constitutionality of a law be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, there to take precedence over other cases so that the constitutionality of laws be not long...