Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most powerful creature in the modern world. Hence, even if its study were not a matter of importance, it would be a fascinating diversion for educated men. But it happens to be a study of the greatest importance. We live in a world which is mostly out of sight, so far as a particular individual is concerned, and largely out of mind, except when things go wrong. It easily gets beyond control. The methods by which it may be, or at least has been, controlled, and by which the power necessary to control it may be made to serve instead...
...French Sea Captain: "I tried to sight Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean and saw nothing but water. Some people think that the island sank in the recent earthquake; others point 'out that I am a French skipper...
...When a passenger of the foot hove in sight tootle the horn, trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacle your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of the mouth the warning...
...Government withdrawing its troops from the joint guard, leaving English troops alone at Chanak. But this slight misunderstanding was dispelled when France and England together forced the Turk to accept the terms of the armistice at Mudania. They were acting again in harmony at Lauzanne, with peace apparently in sight, when the conference suddenly came to a dead stop and the delegates departed with no treaty signed. At that time the Spectator wrote: "The Conference broke down because of French demands" and the English Nation traced the apparent failure at Lauzanne "to French duplicity...
...civilization whose science can restore sight to Claude Monet...