Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other marvels: 1) the "stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern...
Reginald McNamara lay unconscious on a board track in Madison Square Garden. The judge's watch said quarter to eleven. In a quarter of an hour the six-day race would be over and McNamara, the iron man, whose muscles are stronger than bicycle chains and whose will is a spinning-wheel that never stops, would have shown once more that nobody can beat him. For five days, 23¾ hours, he had almost continuously led the field-then a crash at the corner, a spill over the handlebars, and he lay beside his partner, Linari. The Italian...
...meeting at the Varsity Club held last night the members of the University cross-country squad presented an engraved stop-watch to Coach Jaako Mikkola...
This might well be described as the article of faith back of the whole system of concentration and distribution, of guidance strictly limited and of adaptation to the student rather than to the "collegian." It is highly encouraging to watch its development and expansion in one college after another. With greater and wider experience in its application its defects will be discovered and eliminated with much greater success than would be possible if it remained confined to only one or two institutions of higher learning...
...villain in the case is the New York World, which last week published "a fairy story from life." It told how Ileana met her "Prince Charming" in the form of Cadet Glasgow at a West Point dance in October; how she returned two weeks later with her mother to watch him march in the rain; how, the day before sailing, she rushed up to West Point to have luncheon with Cadet Glasgow (and others). She had invited him to luncheon in Manhattan, but Superintendent Merch B. Stewart of West Point had said...