Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impractical and she still clings to her absurd habit of writing verse. The Gentleman, on the other hand, has been content to forget the romantic tendencies of his youth and to plunge into the whirl of business, with the result that he has now a mansion, a gold watch fob, and a bank account of his own. But he has also something more valuable a reputation that none can respect and honor more than Mother Advocate. --Harvard Advocate...
...crowd which would fill the new Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and the Yale Bowl, built as one huge amphitheatre, assembled to watch the final football game for the Association Cup at Wembley Stadium, London. The match, between the Bolton Wanderers and the West Ham United, was equivalent to a final World's Series game in America. The King was present...
...when there are new sports, vitamines, masseurs, and reducing medicine the old folks like to hearken back to their energetic youth when each man took his own exercise and did not watch some one else play. Yet while our Indian stalking ancestors may have been trim and athletic of necessity, old family albums show corporations as well as side whiskers and one wonders how they flourished in the rigorous life of the time. Can it be that men existed in that golden age who never pushed a pedal nor pulled an oar? Impossible...
...University "beyond the walls". The assistants of the Blue Hills Meteorological Observatory, for example, have gathered an unbroken record of the vagaries of New England weather since 1885--a task which proves them to be confirmed optimists. More constant, one might think, would be the lives of those who watch the fixed stars, but the announcement recently made of the discovery of 850 new nebulae by the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, dispels that impression. That and the other station at Mandeville, Jamaica, in their observations of the Southern nebulae are filling a wide gap in earlier astronomy. From...
Cheating in an examination is sometimes weakly condoned by the assertion that the student is engaged in a game with the professor. There is not even a game going on in the library. The library assistants there do not attempt to watch the students; they trust them. We have no doubt but that the most awkward thief could get away with Webster's Dictionary. This is not in suggestion...