Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of passers-by on Mt. Auburn Street was arrested early yesterday afternoon by the sight of several humorous-looking young men in precarious positions on the tiled dome of Lampy's owl-eyed habitation. Reporters and photographers hurried to the scene, which the crowd of onlookers steadily increased. The investigations or au enterprising CRIMSON reporter revealed the fact also preparations for a flag raising ceromony which is to take place shortly before 9 o'clock this morning were in progress. Those who seemed to be acting in the capacity of officials were careful to give out no definite information...
Hindenburg Boot. At the fair the first sight to greet him was the "Hindenburg Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...
...rules of the game. It contains a masterly tabloid exegesis of the law in such finical situations as a player's throwing his cap at a passing ball, two runners on one base, premature decisions (e. g., a bunt declared foul rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon the students completing the course with distinction, Professor...
...months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they howl in chorus, Dreiser and all his works once and forever. He knows nothing, utterly nothing of art. He is an offense in the sight of Heaven; his sloppy writing emanates from the vaporings of a tawdry, baudy, second-rate mind. Even a dog would not, in the Biblical phrase, return to such vomit...
Later Irvine and Mallory made the great trial. Leaving their camp at midnight, they were seen shortly after dawn but 600 feet from success. A flash of snow obscured them from sight and they were never seen again...