Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Documentary evidence of the complete success of the Reading Period experiment at Harvard was secured yesterday through the unstinting efforts of Mr. Ward, of the Watch and Ward Society. Leading authorities concurred last night in the belief that the recently-discovered manuscripts throw invaluable light on the social, economic, and political trend of the times, besides providing interesting material bearing on the attitude of modern youth toward education...
...Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale, "and, in fact, we could watch the profit very easily." The proposed "educational" orders would add only three millions to the War Department's 392-million-dollar budget. In return, U. S. factories would surely contain models of all the special tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges without which the U. S. cannot defend itself...
Eastern tribulations were increased when Stanford edged out a victory over unbeaten Pittsburgh 7-6. Fumbles preceded both touchdowns. Sixty thousand jammed the Pasadena Stadium to watch this Tournament of Roses spectacle write finish to the football season...
...through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...memorable afternoon: for Composer Sidney Homer, her partner in music; for Louise Homer Stires,* herself a singer; for Sidney Homer Jr. and his wife; for the twins, Anne Marie and Katharine, 20, and for Hester Makepeace, 16, who could remember years ago being taken by their nurse to watch the same Egyptian princess; to Joy, 12, who had never in all her life seen her mother "dressed up"; to Louise Homer herself who was singing at the Metropolitan for the first time in eight seasons. For the audience it was just as memorable, for Contralto Homer had lost little...