Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight at 7:15 o'clock the Pierian Sodality opens its 130th anniversary season with a sight-reading evening in Sanders Theatre. Club members state that the session of "cord and discord" will last until it stops...
...been hit by anything, although a Chinese anti-aircraft shell had splintered around the gatehouse. "It's just as safe here as on the river," announced Ambassador Johnson moving his whole staff back into the U. S. Embassy-after which natives of Nanking again beamed at sight of the Stars and Stripes wherever shown, made no more insulting noises or gestures. After inspecting Nanking, military experts opined that unskillfully constructed dugouts which collapsed of themselves had killed about as many Chinese as any one squadron of Japanese bombers...
Many men have fought their way through Harvard under adverse conditions. Among cases that have recently come to light is that of Ralph L. Thompson '38, of Woburn, who is going to be selling magazine subscriptions this Fall. At first sight few would realize that Thompson, a regularly enrolled Senior, is blind. He does not want a dog to aid him because he feels that there would be no point in getting around if he could not get around by himself...
...rest average $125. Few can now afford to own the cars they drive. Like his brother, racing what he calls a "big iron" the ''little iron" driver is inordinately susceptible to quirks and superstitions. No driver will paint his car green. No driver likes to catch sight of a customer munching peanuts. No driver will let a woman sit in his car. Lost shoes are also a bad omen, since the impact of a crash on a tightly-wedged driver often knocks him out of his shoes. Not so dangerous as "big iron" racing, the chief problem...
...monumental novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of election to the Academy, begins his tumble to the gutter; while Psychiatrist Viaur starts climbing to the stars. No end is in sight, and Author Romains has not divulged how much is yet to come...