Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early yet to make any appraisal of the extent of this present upward movement which began in February. The most important factor in the present situation is the money market. Those concerned with the future course of business conditions should watch the trend of commercial paper rates, for a perceptible stiffening is not only a signal of a pronounced decline in security prices, but also precedes by from five to ten months a recession in wholesale prices and a decrease in business, and industrial activity...
Yesterday Dr. Howe took several members of the Graduate Committee on Rowing, among them, Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, Mr. E. C. Storrow '89, and Mr. F. L. Higginson Jr. '00, out with him to watch the work of the first two University and the first yearling eights. A race over the full course in the Basin which was planned for the afternoon was marred by the rough water caused by a sharp cross wind. No times were anonunced, and the race was, in fact, called off before the end on account of the choopy water near the Union Boat...
...impecunious Britisher was at his best, the possibilities of the part seemed to appeal to him tremendously, and it was a pleasure to watch his enthusiastic performance, unfortunately slightly marred by a poor final act, a weakness not of his, but of the author. Mr. Turner as the deserted husband was very, very weak...
...Beta Kappa Key Losing Prestige?--Vote of Yale Seniors for 'Y' in Preference to Historic Watch Charm Raises Sensational Questions." Such is the headline of an article in the New York "Evening Post" which discusses the sensational question--and concludes thus: "Meanwhile the life of the undergraduate as a whole carries on as before. The 'News', in the same number with its editorial on the Phi Beta Kappa matter, prints front page articles on the election of a wrestling captain and the progress of the crews on the Housatonic (this last was reported slow). There is also a traditional plea...
...spent more time chasing the fleet football than what Mr. Dooley once called "the more fleet aorist", he had some theoretical respect for that part of man which grows above the neck. Now, apparently, quite otherwise. The pleasant, rasp of the golden key as it slides along the watch chain seems a pale delight compared to the costasies of throwing, the victorious hat over the goal bar of the bowl or the stadium. W. W. Williams in the N. Y. Evening Post