Word: watchmen
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Work has just been started on grading a parking space for 150 cars south of the Business School buildings, in addition to the accomodations for 175 cars at present in use. Flood lights will be provided to aid in night parking, and watchmen will patrol the parking space day and night...
...treasures of the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bristle with electric burglar alarms, glass cages, crime-proof locks, watchmen. So elaborate are the precautions taken that vandalism has been deemed impossible...
...bring such a host of permanent residents to Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, has cost millions of dollars. There the "objects of art" in paint, marble, bronze, tapestry, are mostly by world-famed masters. Their owners go off summering comforted by thought of the heavy insurance policies, faithful watchmen, alert elevator attendants provided to protect the expensive stay-behinds...
...flying speck vanished away from the aerodrome at Le Bourget, outside Paris. They saw it pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart...
...Detroit, Last week J. B. Book Jr., began another of his enormous Detroit buildings. He already has the Book-Cadillac Hotel and the Book Building. The new one, to be called Book Tower, will be the tallest structure in the world-81 stories, 873 ft. Quaker Oats. Dropsical watchmen have long importuned like unfortunates to avail themselves of some favored herb. Recently, perfumes, automobiles, Florida resorts advertised as among their purchasers New York and Philadelphia bluebloods. Most advertising managers forget that the majority of Americans are neither watchmen nor bluebloods; one astute man did not. Last week appeared an advertisement...