Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house in a Buenos Aires side-street, two young men and two young women had been found with seven bombs, many firearms and a map of the railway by which the Hoover party approached. They were anarchists and proud of it. Police collared them and kept watch on all other known radicals in the city. Hundreds of guards were deployed throughout the station. Hundreds more policed 100,000 of the populace, massed in the station plaza...
After the conference, delegates went to Boiling Field at Washington to watch Army, Navy and Marine planes maneuver. But dismal, foggy weather stopped the display...
...game; both were routs of such a nature as to make the Eastern teams look foolish. The boys from beyond the Rockies did not seem to take the game as seriously as their rivals; nor did it appear necessary for them to do so. It was like watching the Princeton Varsity play against St. Mark's. A great horde filled the Yankee Stadium to watch the Oregon Aggies stop Ken Strong, push over the supposedly indestructible N. Y, U. line and score 25 points...
Another huge horde filled the stadium hoping to watch the Army repel the western invasion. Biff Hoffman, the Stanford fullback, came out with his stockings down; other Stanford players were without headguards. Opposite them, but not much in the way, stood the neat, trim, speedy Army eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members...
Uncanny, weird, prophetic was a sign in the window of Montgomery Ward's branch store in Pottsville, Pa., one day last week. Said the sign: "WATCH THESE WINDOWS TOMORROW." Next day the four-story store was destroyed in a $500,000 fire...