Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wait of two triple-space minutes while the announcer winds his watch. Then he steps forward. There is a noisy hush...
...stop at the mention of the paltry 50,000 who sat in the Bowl of the Stadium? Why forget the twice 50,000 all over the country, in Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, who watched the same game over the ticker, or sat in a smoke-fogged room listening to telegraphic announcements, play by play, or who even stood on the curbing in front of a newspaper office and watched an impartial employee shove a little yellow ball along a blackboard, usually indicating the direction in which the real football was not going. Since it is so important...
...estimated that 50,000 filed into the Palmer Stadium to-day to watch Yale and Princeton in their annual gridiron contest," he reads. "Yale took the field at five minutes of 2, and was greeted by salvos and applause and cheering from the Yale section. A minute later the Princeton team appeared, and this was a signal for the Princeton cohorts to rise as one man and give vent to their famous 'Undertaker's Song...
Tomorrow morning the men will leave Boston for Bridgeport where they will spend the night. The squad will hold a final practice on the High School Field in the afternoon, motoring up to New Haven Saturday morning. The game will be played at 11.30 so that the men can watch the Yale-Princeton contest at 2 o'clock...
...Harvard man always a Harvard man. The broader point of view, the mannerisms of speech, indifference of all these are said to mark the Harvard type. But these are characteristics more common to the college, man in general. Would you know how to detect the true Harvard man? Watch him at his meals...