Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five New Jersey women who one year ago believed that today they would be dead, were still alive last week but uncomfortable at the imminence of death. They are suffering from radium poisoning contracted while painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corp. (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq). The company, after law suits, gave each woman $10,000 and expenses...
Probably the most amusing to watch is the white rabbit owned by a Sophomore in one of the Gold Coast dormitories. He spends his days sleeping in a box in the corner; his nights are occupied in disturbing his owners while they try to sleep. In the evenings he gambols over the green in front of Russell Annex, being guarded by an horde of onlookers; and in the mornings he is just...
...well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch. His colleague, Senator Shortridge, folded his long arms with stately dignity across his narrow chest...
Assistant Postmaster-General Coleman replied that the Department meant no harm to publishers, would watch carefully for any encroachment by the auctions on private business. The auctions continued on alternate Wednesdays through October, with publishers still vexed...
...confused with his son John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, famed biochemist of Cambridge University, twice-wounded onetime member of the Black Watch, who, like his father, observes the subtle linkage between science, philosophy, ethics, religion...