Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoughts in asides, these thoughts coming between speeches of entirely different import. Our difficulty, after playing the parts so long, is that we find ourselves listening to the asides, which, being thoughts, are obviously not meant for us as persons in the play. The result is that, unless we watch ourselves closely, we are in danger of misreading our next lines. When the play began its run this break was not possible. Constant performance, however, has made it necessary for us to avoid listening to the thoughts, and concentrate on the main speeches...
...beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed to be thinking of something else. Suddenly news spread over the course that Miss Collett and Mrs. Higbie had left the fourteenth green and that Mrs. Higbie was four up. Galleries and officials who deserted other matches to watch them finish saw something to remember. They saw Miss Collett play reckless, perfect golf to win the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth holes. Needing one more hole to keep the match alive she drove a long, low ball that hit the fairway, kicked sharply to one side, stopped square at the foot...
...strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...unquestionably be some changes, but judging from an estimate of the ability and immediate possibilities of the players this rating seems essentially sound. Shields has been acclaimed the coming star of the country by Tilden, Richards, and others who ought to know. Anyone who has taken the time to watch this youngster with a critical eye cannot doubt the truth of the prediction. He has unlimited possibilities if he would only take the game seriously. Coen is another who has just started his ascent of the tennis ladder, while Bell's record seems to warrant his place...
...good small college team utterly routed by a team far out of its class, will tide over many an evil day later in the athletic season. It may be sacrificing eleven good men and true on the altar of Mammon, but next year the same crowds will watch the same little teams mauled by the same big teams, all for the glory of the Alma Mater and the rightful share of the gate receipts...