Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best solution of whatever problem does exist, lies in the creation, by the Student Council and other undergraduate organizations, of a general attitude which would look on the proctor more and more as an aid, as a special help to the student, and less and less as an antagonistic watch-dog, set over a room to find as many morally deficient students as possible...
...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...
...clock.--Sun will be a very thin crescent. The atmosphere will look stormy. Observers should watch for shadow bands on sides of white buildings and on the snow. The thin crescent of the sun breaks up into glittering points of light, which astronomers have dubbed Baily's beads...
...would think that the gentle tide of ridicule which undermined the labors of Commissioner Hirshfield of New York some months ago would teach all subsequent fools to watch their steps when they seek to purify the wells of American history. Not so. The latest worker for the cause of 1776 percent Americanism is Representative O'Brien, of Dorchester, who has filed a bill in the House to prohibit the hellish poison of falsification from polluting the teaching of the history of the United States...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept in the rear; when the others had settled...