Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Philadelphia militia was called out in 1776, Peale, dressed in a brown uniform and black tricornered hat, and equipped with a sword, a musket with telescopic sights of his own invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads...
...Maryland House of Delegates (see color page), is one of the best of Washington at his prime. Peale added the Marylanders' hero, hard-riding Colonel Tilghman, holding the articles of surrender, and Peale's great friend Lafayette. In the middle ground, "to tell the story at first sight," Peale introduced the French and U.S. battle flags on either side of two downcast Britons carrying their colors cased...
...sight of the newly arrived American tourist rushing to Paris' Louvre or Florence's Uffizi is as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...been collecting at Mi Vida's portal at the rate of 15,000 to 20,000 tons monthly, now lies in heaps 40 ft. high. The sight of such idle riches disturbed Steen, so he decided to build a mill himself. Last week he signed, for his Uranium Reduction Co., a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission to build an $8,000,000 to $10 million uranium-reduction mill, the biggest...
...syllable) method of teaching a child to read in favor of the word method (i.e., teaching the child to recognize whole words by their appearance). But they have done so because, at the beginning, letters alone "are meaningless to the child." Thus "they teach Johnny to recognize at sight and as wholes a small number of simple words that he already uses in speech. He learns to know these like the faces of old friends, without analyzing the parts." The Straw Man. "But after Johnny knows 50 to 100 words by sight, he begins to analyze the letters and sounds...