Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Time works for us; and Russia can afford, without alarm, to watch calmly the League of Nations, which she fears is a Colossus with feet of clay...
...Navigator. Buster Keaton is like President Coolidge. You either like him or you do not. If you are one of the latter, you will stay away from the box-office polls. Otherwise, you will watch him on shipboard, attacked by cannibals, prodded by swordfish. You will continue happily in his constituency...
Faster, faster, faster they went. Around the turn, along the back stretch, faster, faster, faster. Fifty thousand people rose to watch them finish, those eight swift-galloping horses, seven of America's best against the best of France. Into the home stretch they swept, brown and black bodies, flashing colored silks, rising, falling, tearing through their own mad dust-cloud...
...best lineman the Crimson will have met in its early season games. This 196-pound end is likely to do much damage to the University formations. Glennon, the Purple's star halfback, is a dangerous man when he gets loose. Last year Coach Fisher warned his men to watch this Purple threat closely, and he was never allowed to break away for a long gain. Crimson enthusiasts hope that Captain Greenough's men will be able to ocver him as well this year...
...Watch Glennon," said Coach Cleo O'Donnell Holy Cross mentor, on the eve of the annual struggle with the Crimson last year. This was no idle threat, for time and again the shifty Purple back threw fear into the Harvard adherents with his dazzling speed and uncanny ability to keep his feet. Only a superb defense at a crucial moment prevented a score last fall, and gave the Crimson the best of the 6-0 score...