Word: watching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity final, Yale will be the crew to watch. Although they have been beaten by Penn in the Blackwell Cup in April, they turned in an excellent performance at Derby Day by beating Wisconsin and setting a new course record...
...pick the man that can do this best, and once chosen, how do you train him? The job of finding eight men who together will combine the greatest strength with the greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
...defunct New York newspaper PM published a music column written by "Nostradamus," which attempted to predict the quality of coming musical events. In his final column of the year, discussing the 1946-47 season of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Nostradamus warned his readers to watch out for a conductor named Charles Munch. His success will be immediate and enormous, he predicted...
...Waltham Watch Co., which closed down its plant four months ago, had the cash to get started again. But there was one last obstacle. It had on hand 185,000 watches, enough to satisfy the market for some time, and block the new line Waltham wanted to bring out. Last week Waltham found a quick way to get rid of them. It made a deal with the Associated Merchandising Corp. to clear out all the watches it could at half-price through A.M.C.'s 24 retail outlets...
When Boston's William Filene's Sons Co. opened the first sale, the idea worked fine; 1,500 watches were sold in a day. But the plan made no friends among jewelers. Waltham tried to placate them by authorizing them to clean out their stocks of Walthams at half-price, too. But the jewelers still complained. The price-cutting was playing hob with their business just before graduation, normally their best watch-selling season...