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Word: watchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.) ended with 69 projects approved and this able summing up by a Brazilian delegate: "The United States at last has joined the Pan-American family! Now we can do something and we are going to do it. Watch for even more surprising results at subsequent Inter-American and Pan-American conferences. This is just a beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighborhood | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...kidnappers' abandoned automobile. Police promptly notified local G-men, offered to cooperate with them on the case. The G-men preferred to work alone. New York City detectives and New Jersey troopers then discovered that Brunette had lately married a resident of upper Broadway, set a watch on her family's house. At this point, according to police, the G-men offered to join forces with them. Together they traced Brunette's wife to a ground-floor apartment on West 102nd Street. Two New York detectives, one New Jersey trooper and one G-man were planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Catch & Credit | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences wrote the studio protesting as unlikely the scene in which Cody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...could actually cause light to travel in a curve. The reason that du Font's plastic appears to do so is that the crystalline structure of the material refracts the light in a series of very short straight lines joined at slight angles, like bar links in a watch chain, so that the light stays inside the conductor until it reaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Curved Light | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...sell all his stock to the pool at $400 per share or 2) buy all the pool's stock at $400 per share. Weary Mr. Mount & friends decided to sell out. Preparing to retire to an office in San Francisco's Russ Building next year, there to "watch the wheels go round," Mr. Mount explained his acceptance: "I'm not going to have Giannini gunning for me for the rest of my life." Said his wife: "I wonder what he'll do to us next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: San Francisco Feud | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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