Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cites the increased use of athletic facilities especially in the case of squash racquets and rowing. It has long been a reflection on American athletics that eleven men should be highly trained and organized to "play a game" while 3000 other men should be highly trained and organized to watch the game and cheer. Harvard fortunately is committed to a different policy...
...French enter a mining district, with machine guns, tanks, and all the other appurtenances of war, the whistles in the town are blown, and when the French troops come up, they are met by the entire population who merely stand around with folded arms and calmly watch the movements of the aggressors. Naturally the troops cannot fire on such a gathering, and they are also unsuccessful in getting work out of the Germans. The French are spending 500,000,000 francs a month in the Ruhr, or the equivalent of a million dollars a day, and at present they have...
...will meet the Lafayette College nine in the 14th game of the season. The Crimson showed its ability to recover from a slump by easily defeating the Springfield Y. M. C. A. combination on Monday, and Coach Slattery decided to give his team a rest yesterday, taking them to watch the Braves play in Boston. Herrmann, who will be used as a relief pitcher for the Princeton contest, will probably start on the mound for the Crimson, but he is almost certain to be replaced later in the game by Spalding...
...airplane was hailed as something new, but as an advertising medium it is doomed to be short-lived. The writing is soon whisked away by the wind, and few will raise a jaded eye at the expense of a rheumatic neck to watch the gyrations of an airplane which has become a commonplace. Something more than mere novelty is demanded of the new advertising...
...fulfilled, because of the large increase of "insurgent" members in the next Congress. As regards taxes, the Senator's words are more than a prediction-they are an announcement. Senator Smoot, according to seniority rules, will be next Chairman of the Finance Committee and so-called " watch dog of the Treasury." In that position he will have an important voice in deciding the tax program for next year...