Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eighty thousand people gathered in Berkeley to watch Southern California grapple scorelessly with California...
Members of Parliament, who had adjourned and rushed over to watch the rescue work, talked a great deal and loudly about enacting a new code of building laws...
...Night Watch. Billie Dove takes the stand in defense of her husband, Paul Lukas, murder suspect and captain of a French battleship. Who killed Nicholas Soussanin, young lieutenant found dead on board the cruiser by the Admiralty committee that came to congratulate the Captain for sinking the Istria? Out of Billie Dove's testimony the story flows in retake with dignity and pictorial effectiveness - the night the War began when the officers' wives came on board for dinner and Billie Dove, delayed by the importunities of a onetime suitor, one of the officers, was caught on board...
...they will encourage training ships on the high sead. I want them to know what it's like to be off by yourself with a few comrades, blue sea shining all around you, blue sky all above you, the fun of bauling ropes, setting sails, keeping a night watch and steering a boat...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...