Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn three world's records as follows: 3,000 yards in 7 min, 43 and 2/5 sec.; 2,500 metres in 6:58; and one and five-eighth miles in 7:23 2/5. He made these records in the course of running 3,000 yards with a stop watch in one hand...
...ouster petition was regarded in many quarters as hardly more than a gesture, it appeared that Governor Kohler had opened his administration with conspicuous success. And Governor Kohler well knows that the man who stops La Follettism in Wisconsin is a man whom the nation will watch...
...faults, however, the "romance"--one hesitates to say operetta--has certain strong points. The voices of the main characters are with out exception remarkably good, and while the acting and directing leave much to be desired in the way of smoothness, the two leading ladies are a pleasure to watch--particularly, we thought, Miss Brinkley in the part of Delphine. And then of course De Wolfe Hopper is in the cast. But on the whole "White Lilacs" is neither fish, flesh nor fowl nor, as the name might imply good, erotic, red herring...
...English had already won the first test at Brisbane, and the second at Sydney. The third, if they won, would clinch the series for them. Since a test usually lasts for a week or more, the inhabitants of Melbourne had plenty of time to watch. On the first days of play, the crowd was small. Then word got around that the Australians were making a fine stand and the grandstands began to fill...
...only as a competitor of Radio Corp. and Mackay Co. did Universal Wireless make its dramatic appearance. Such established systems as Western Union and Postal Telegraph must watch this rising communications company. Said Dr. John Nathonsohn, Manhattan representative of Universal Wireless, naively: "We are not proposing to undercut the wire companies. But we intend to offer a 12-word message instead of a 10-word one at the same rate now being charged for the shorter one by the telegraph companies...