Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people themselves who make it dangerous here," he declared. "If only they would be careful and watch where they go, there would be less trouble. For example, I get all the cars stopped, and none of the pedestrians will look at me when I signal them to cross. And then when the cars get started, they all try to cross in every direction, and I have to wave around like a windmill to watch them." Mr. Murphy, however, admitted that the elimination of the rotunda would help matters...
...kindling, stole the curtains out of Holden Chapel, and disfigured Hollis and old Stoughton. We learn the true history of that first President who beat his assistant unconscious with a club, half-starved the boys, and cheated to the tune of thousands of pounds. From this poor beginning we watch the academy grow to a college, and the college to a University, are present at the fights to found the first Medical School in America and the first Law School in the world. Suddenly, we find ourselves participating in--the same old dispute that rages now over Freshman Dormitory Commons...
...Italy must watch against the French danger...
...Well, let me tell Wills, that he'd better not try that trick on me. That style of fighting is my dish. When he puts that left around my neck to pull me in, I'll slip right around his back and do some pulling myself. Then watch me smash my left into the stomach...
...Plessis de Granadan was found in Sicilian waters by the net of a fisherman. No log among the few papers in his pockets, the failure of any carrier pigeons to return, a gleam of light seen off the coast of Sicily about the time that de Granadan's watch stopped led to the supposition that the disabled airship collapsed and exploded suddenly at her end, carrying 48 brave men to their death...