Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigil that lasts till dawn. Motoring through the mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass, and see a fainter arm of light waving over the hills ahead, the next...
...TIME readers watch for the appearance of Miss Justine Agnes Clementine La Vie's poem in Opportunity...
...said ominously: "Men of good will and high purpose [at official parleys, such as the current one at Geneva] are striving with might and main for that which is good, but their councils are menaced. They are opposed by the sinister attitude of unworthy men. With bated breath we watch. Is good will to prevail or envy, hatred and malice? White the conferees meet and the world waits, brooding fear hovers in the background. . . . In any republic worthy of the name, its citizens must be eternally vigilant...
...International Bible Students' Association represents a religious phenomenon now about 50 years old. It began with "Pastor" Charles Taze Russell who organized the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in Pennsylvania to spread his interpretations of the Old & New Testaments. Moving to Manhattan he incorporated the People's Pulpit Association for the same purpose. Later, in London, the International
...left to the solar plexus, which was the decisive blow as I saw it. When Sharkey got the solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were two Jacks, I said: 'I mean you, Dempsey.' Then Dempsey hit the solar plexus blow. Sharkey dropped his right hand and Dempsey hit, him a left...