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Word: watchin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

Westerner: Use your eyes, mister. Look around you. These blighted miles of hot sand have been made fit places to live in. Think of it! One day worth nothin' 'cept to go crazy thirstin' and watchin' vinegarroons crawlin' by the cacti, and today worth one billion dollars in taxable property! That's progress for ye, mister, that's progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Professional Touch | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., Policeman Michael F. Hally stopped Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for passing a red light in her automobile. Said she: ''I was watching the street car in front of me." Said he: "You wasn't watchin' nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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