Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist leaders have a way of disappearing from sight and then, when the rumors of their death are beginning to fill the world press, of turning up alive and kicking. Last week in Tokyo, the pattern was reversed: a Communist leader whom everybody counted alive was acknowledged to have died almost two years...
...turn of the century, communities had to cope with exactly the same types of youth crimes as we have today, and proportionately as often. And that was ... in a day of no mechanization, no easy communications and transportation, no radio, no television, no movies, no comics, no sight method of teaching reading, no world wars...
Once a profit was in sight, Crowell-Collier President Smith set to work to bring in badly needed new capital. He laid his financial problem before Manhattan Broker Edward L. Elliott, who found him a group of 26 big investors, including Chicago Financier J. Patrick Lannan (see BUSINESS). The Elliott group agreed to buy $3,000,000 worth of new Crowell-Collier debentures, convertible to 600,000 common stock shares (at $5 a share). It also took an option to buy half the 400,000 shares (26% of outstanding stock) held by the late Joseph Knapp's Publication Corp...
...dancer and dean of U.S. dancers, Ted Shawn still sees himself as the man of God he started out to be in Denver. "Art, as P. D. Ouspensky said, is the beginning of vision, seeing farther than human sight. And dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. I never go onstage without saying 'Here I am, Lord, use me.' I have had almost a vocation from childhood to be a religious . . . The dance is religion. It is the finest symbol of the activity of God that we have...
...Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier, now electrical-power boss; cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko, looking for once as if he had not an enemy in sight...