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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fesler wants to give his first quintet of Lutz, Legg, Peabody, Lupien, and Ruml ample opportunity to watch part of the contest with him on the sidelines. In the first meeting of the two squads in Philadelphia, the Crimson found that their offense and scoring plays worked well so the game tonight should be rated a toss...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS TO FACE PENNSYLVANIA | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...watch on the Yale sextet tonight will be Fred Burr, of the Eli first defense, goalie Harry Holt, and Captain Gil Humphrey, Burr, a Junior, is rated the fastest player on the Eli sextet, and Humphrey, along with his line-mate Dud Humphrey, is leading the team in scoring. Holt, who is considered by many the best net-minder in the League, turned in a beautiful game against the Crimson in the Yale nets last year...

Author: By Roger B. Linscott, | Title: Stickmen to Battle Yale Sextet In Play-off Clash Here Tonight | 3/4/1939 | See Source »

...survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost as good fun to watch as it must have been to make. Typical shot: Fields threatening to get McCarthy, with whom he continues his radio feud, a pair of beavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added that she was "ready for feathering" when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Before a Hollywood pressagent named Russell Birdwell published his first book, I Ring Doorbells, this week, he: 1) polled 2,500 newsmen to help pick its title; 2) wrote 175 department store buyers to watch for it; 3) offered book editors free j photographs of Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, et al., simpering: "This is the j most exciting book of the year," etc.; 4) offered radio stations two-minute transcriptions of the same stars making the same kind of remarks; 5) offered orchestras a specially written I Ring Doorbells song. Sample verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birdwell's Book | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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