Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slipped out to watch the Washington Senators beat the Boston...
...strong for a pressure group representing the general non-violent, non-"anti-anti" public, but particularly the large bourgeois-intellectual group in Boston who see the foreign films. The formation of such a group to agitate heatedly against banning through the influence of any group--Catholic, Jewish, or Watch and Ward Society--would best he organized through the university and college populations of the Boston area. But however it be done, it is the crying need of the day. Paul W. Friedrich...
...metropolis itself girded for siege. Along Nanking Road, through Shanghai's heart, khaki-clad troops put up wires for military phones. At the Central Police Station black-clad police cracked down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write...
...cold wind or broiling sun learning to pull a 12-foot oar through the water with the precision and power to win races on perhaps five Saturday afternoons in a year and to pull just as hard despite the fact that 99 out of 100 people who watch them don't even know their names...
When a top level Harvard committee admits the University may have made a mistake, it's a good idea to watch what happens next. Last week, the Committee on Educational Policy made such an admission indirectly, when it set up Donald C. McKay's special committee on Geography. No one can predict what this group will suggest, nor what will happen to its recommendations, but it's a pretty good bet that something will be done to patch up last year's hasty hatcheting of a vital field...