Word: watching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...modern industrial world consists of two classes of articles: essentials and luxuries. Before the war the latter were very common. They are now becoming more scarce, as nations realize that they must economize and live on the bare necessaries of existence. The war has made economy the watch-word of human actions. The luxuries and non-essentials of society must be curtailed so that raw materials will not be drawn away from more useful channels of war production and so that labor will not be engaged in producing articles of no immediate value. The complexity of modern life...
Standish.--1, The Quilting Party. 2, Football Marches. 3, When We Wind Up the Watch on the Rhine...
Neither Coach Haines nor Coach Fitzpatrick have had their charges under the watch, and consequently their time is unpredictable. Whatever their speed as compared with former years, a close match is expected this afternoon. Coach Haines expressed confidence in a Crimson victory but by a very slight margin...
...Military Science and Tactics from all colleges of the New England and the Middle Atlantic states, where military training units are maintained, will be held at the University on May 28. At that time the representatives of the different colleges that accept the invitation to attend the conference will watch the University Corps in action in an exercise at Fresh Pond. They will then dine together as guests of the Military Office, and in the evening will confer as to the best method of coordinating the summer training at the various colleges so as to get the best results...
...behind me in good position for him, I would try to turn sharply under him and after he passed above make a renversement and be behind him and under his tail. A machine cannot see another if it be directly below him, while the one below can easily watch the one above. Once behind the other fellow, you try to follow him in all his turns. When you try to make quick turns and don't get them just right the machine assumes the most weird positions. You may see your opponent apparently stationary and exactly upside down. The earth...