Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher goes through the classroom with a Sight Meter in her hand. Its quivering needle shows in footcandles the amount of light in the room. If in any spot it registers less than ten footcandles the teacher should raise the shades or turn on the electric lights...
...various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably above him. The Ramapo, its stern at the base of the wave behind, was found to be tilted up at an angle 11 ° 50'. Using this angle and the distance from bridge to stern the wave-height was computed by trigonometry, and like...
Last week the Chicago teachers were in plain sight of their November-to-June wages. An Illinois Supreme Court decision removed the last obstacle between the School Board and a $22,500,000 RFC loan, secured by school bonds and by mortgages on $30,000,000 worth of revenue-producing property owned by the School Board. Five days later in Chicago RFC Chairman Jesse Jones approved the loan which would pay all teachers in full. The $3,000,000 balance, to be paid to school board civil service employes, will come from a special fund now made available for that...
...invariable rule in Boston newspaper offices to identify a bustling young banker by the name of Joseph Patrick Kennedy as "the son-in-law of former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald." In 1914, on the strength of $5,000 he had cleared from a venture in a sight-seeing bus, the son of a Democratic ward boss married the daughter of Honey Fitz.* Good Catholics, the Kennedys had a child on the average of every two years, the ninth born in 1932. And when President Roosevelt remembered his old friend with a post on the Securities & Exchange Commission, he found...
...college Harry Payne Whitney once declared in a questionnaire that he could trace his ancestry "out of sight." To trace the fortune he left when he died in 1930 it was not necessary to go back farther than his father, William Collins Whitney, traction tycoon, Secretary of the Navy under Cleveland, who left him $24,000,000; and his uncle, Col. Oliver Hazard Payne, who left him about $12,000,000. Last week Harry Payne Whitney's fortune at the time of his death was appraised by New York State for tax collection purposes...