Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boonton, N. J., the Board of Fire Wardens held a contest to raise funds for a new fire truck, asked the citizens of Boonton to guess how long it would take a fully wound watch to run down. One T. C. Carbonell guessed 34 hours 35 minutes. In 34 hours, 34 minutes, 52 seconds, the watch ran down...
Over 20,000 people assembled on the banks of the Schuylkill to watch one of the annual feature events in American rowing circles Saturday. The race for Junior eights was the semi-final event on the huge program, in which 47 crews participated. In the final race of the afternoon, the undefeated Navy crew added Pennsylvania to its string of victims, defeating the Quaker eight by three-quarters of a length in the fast time of six minutes 34 and two-fifths seconds. The record for the Henley course on the Schuylkill of six minutes and 25 seconds was made...
...plays, and proving equally delightful in both. In "Great Catherine", a farce in four scenes, the playwright pokes fun at the foibles of the court of Catherine the Great, while in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet", he transports the audience to the American Great West to watch the trial of a horse thief and incidentally to listen to a philosophical disquisition on life...
Harvard has opened her stadium to the Phantom Finn for his last American appearance. It is naturally to be hoped for his sake and the sake of the thousands who will watch him that he will set up a new and lasting record in the mile. But it is of even greater importance that he will be treated with a courtesy and a hospitality equal to the occasion...
...General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred, he allowed them to burn, was boxed on the ears...