Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confiscating a car as its owner delivered liquor to the inhabitants of a dormitory. They have brought the matter before the law, and now the court is to pronounce judgment upon the dealer. The case hangs fire, while those concerned with the fate of bootleggers and of student councils watch, intrigued. Whether it is nobler to suffer in silence, or to take arms against this move--that is the question at Williams. Perhaps, with summer not so far away, there will be no protest this year. But autumn will come, and with it there may be a change of heart...
...mystery, gentlemen, no hocus-pocus; every issue plainly before your eyes, every candidate offered for what he is worth. The college side-show serves to whet the appetite while the main tent is being prepared. But the pungency of the 1924 performance is lacking this year. Houston may watch a real struggle: New Lecture Hall is slated to observe a walk-over on the first ballot...
Among the visitors at the field on the third day was a distinguished old gentleman so bundled up in his greatcoat that few bystanders recognized him at first. He got out of his automobile and hurried over to watch the Lobbyist take off with a fresh load. Smiling like a boy, stepping quickly with excitement, the old gentleman looked as though he wanted to fly too. But he was not asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted...
...anniversary of the morning of the day as one of the greatest humiliations and losses of my life. I lost my watch to day. We first went down the lake. Then to Milan in the cars. At Milan we did all we could to recover my watch but it was useless...
...that got round the first tee at Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...