Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novices were Initiated into all the mysteries of seamanship on a Navy cruiser of the second line. They took turns at standing watch in all quarters of the ship, from bridge to fire-room. Lectures were held on the theory and practice of navigation, and the students were required to make detailed study and drawings of the more important parts of the engines and the navigating apparatus...
...vicinity of the London Stock Exchange, prowled a pickpocket. Soon he espied an old gentleman, walking solo. "Easy money," he grinned and sidled up behind. Then, drawing up abreast, his nimble fingers felt for the oldster's watch. Instanter a bony fist hit him a resounding thwack on the jaw and he went reeling into the roadway...
Olin Downes, music critic for the New York Times, made a point of attending the Richard Strauss Festspiele at Frankfort-am-Main the last days of August; and it was his chance to watch Composer-Conductor Richard Strauss, 63 & disgusted, roused to homely emotion. Critic Downes report reached print only last week...
...prize; $5 for third prize-total $155 for prizes. If the entrance fee were set at $1, the contest would be practically sure to pay its own way. The Women's National Democratic Club contest committee therefore announced those prizes and that entrance fee and sat back to watch their scheme succeed...
Storks. A small girl in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, wrote to the War Department, requesting a baby brother. Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, summoned his stenographer and dictated: "I have instructed the army aviators to watch the skies when they are flying around and if they see a stork delivering a little baby to tell it of your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer...