Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promise: TIME will watch, will report directly if the above barometer shows sign of slightest change...
...three hundred feet. As the craft struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot in six minutes, but firemen and mechanics with axes could do nothing but watch the flames because of the intense heat. The seven passengers and the pilot must have died instantaneously. Their clothes were gone and their bodies black when disinterred from the wreckage...
Love in the Wilderness. At the angles of this triangle stand a husband, a childhood hero and Corinne Griffith. Since the impression is rapidly spreading that Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful female in the films, there is virtually no point in saying the doings are dull. Watch her head against the pillow of a hospital cot; see her escape from the very jaws of a greedy alligator; follow her through the thunder storm on the convict island. Do all this and be satisfied. The direction of Robert Z. Leonard and the terrible titles will not wholly flatten the effect...
...students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...
...stage was erected in the East Room of the White House; and the Coolidges (who are not attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...