Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this abuse comes from inability to differentiate between curtailment and elimination. It is an established fact that some secret practice is a necessity. Success in important games is well-nigh impossible without an element of surprise. Coach Roper at Princeton has, however, decided to allow everyone to watch the team in the remainder of this season's daily workouts. Perhaps a few new plays may be rehearsed on the sly, but in the main practice will be open to all. The reason for this action is Coach Roper's expressed desire to have the undergraduates see at first hand...
...view his team in actual play exactly eight hours; that is the maximum amount of playing-time in the customary schedule of eight games. If the policy of "football for all" is to be in any way encouraged one of the first steps is to allow all to watch the coaching of this game. Too few spectators today know many of the real underlying principles of football. If for a limited time each day, or on certain days of the week, students were admitted to the Stadium, interest and enjoyment on Saturday afternoons would be greater than ever...
...fact that the report had been circulated, but in no wise vouched for its authenticity. TIME'S story was as follows: From Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used for alligator bait. " The infants are allowed to play in shallow water while expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian approaches his prey, he is shot by the riflemen...
...growl of the Bull-dog, it is the roar of the Tiger; and today when the estimable puritanical gentleman goes down into the Palmer Stadium, he will be very wary, for he has felt the Tiger's claws. In his lair the Tiger is particularly wily. But John will watch his step and keep his finger on the trigger, for only twice in the past has be "done in" the Tiger in his new Stadium...
...occasions, a better index to the future than the postprandial discourses of many of its critics. The largely featureless stock market of the past few weeks may prove next Spring to have reflected a period of duller but largely painless business conditions. But by that time the public who watch stock prices will be more interested in their bearing on the Fall of 1924 than upon their forecasting accuracy this Autumn...