Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just outside the university gates was a sight to give even the most determined demonstrator pause: row upon row of uniformed policemen. What happened next will be remembered for years to come. As more than 50,000 striking university students flooded the streets in defiance of government warnings, some 250,000 ordinary citizens joined them, supporting their demands for more democracy...
...advance in computer technology. Over the years, computer scientists have devised an impressive array of mathematical techniques, or algorithms, for rendering 3-D images on a 2-D computer screen. Traditionally, these algorithms -- for drawing things in perspective, for example, removing surfaces hidden from the viewer's line of sight or painting finished objects with texture and shade -- have been encoded in programs and stored in computers as software. As such, they used up massive quantities of computer time. To draw a simple object ten times a second, the minimum needed to create the illusion of motion, took 1 billion...
...time the students reached the square, more than eight hours after the march began, they were far outnumbered by workers and residents who joined them, and the soldiers who had been guarding the square faded out of sight...
...sure the University community would benefit from the unique perspectives and viewpoints expressed by the DBTC members. The sight of students in dark-suit uniform lock-stepping to their own faculty would make me proud to be sharing in the famed Harvard diversity, as we seek our individual callings...
...most haunting sight--I'll never forget it--was an old Byzantine church cut open, right in half, as if with a saw," Lozano said...