Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please, next time when you intend to write any thing about Persia, watch your step and write facts or nothing at all; otherwise effective steps will be taken that the personal integrity of Pahlevi shall not be molested by such people that sell their honor and personality, their integrity and what not to the British money...
Penn. As a pistol shot started the 175-yard dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record...
...distrusted the lean man, so Shakespeare tells us, and thought him fit only for "treason, stratagems and spoils". But now he is raised in his fellow-man's estimation, and instead of a dagger in his belt he will more probably have a Phi Beta Kappa charm on his watch chain...
...generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where the contestants are far apart, leaves it cold. It takes such an affair about as seriously as it would take a duel with swords at fifty paces or with revolvers at two miles. There has been publicity attached...
...erudite gentlemen who delight in classifying the University and all its contents with one clever phrase, not all the instinct of curiosity is purged by a dose of indifference. There are fire-engines and fireengines, but a whole laboratory class in Boylston will rush to the windows to watch one rush down Massachusetts Avenue (although some hint at ulterior motives for this interest). Airplanes are a commonplace; the single shells have been on the river for weeks; roadsters gleaming with nickel are not rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates. And so, when Charlle Paddock comes to the Stadium...