Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patience the butler who did the proposing and it was Patience who stood by as best man at the wedding. Over the years, in gratitude for such devotion, Thornhill showered his butler with gifts of clothes and money, even of a nine-room house completely furnished. Out of sight of the squire, Patience lived like something of a lord himself. When the daily grind of grape-pitting at the manor was over, Patience would slip away, clad in the best, and whisk off 50 miles to London in his master's Jaguar to flash ?5 notes in the eyes...
...Rumble of Prayers. The marchers expected the police of President Perón, who has been feuding with the Catholic Church since last October, to attack. Not a police car came within sight. The pace of the march quickened, and silence gave way to a rumble of prayers and hymns...
...always considered a peculiarly undergraduate property. At most other schools "reunion" means fatuous old fellows cavorting in beanies, and that is a very comforting thought for any young man who would cleave to the notion of irresponsible middle age. Instead of constant revels, however, we are faced with the sight of Harvard Reunioners attending symposia and discussing the problems of the University and the world with a virtuosity and vocabulary that we, again, thought the special property of undergraduates. This is a hard blow to student...
...sight, sound, taste and perfume of your "Legend of Dylan Thomas" have a true splendor . . . How Poet Thomas would have enjoyed...
...Sight in Darkness. Du Mont's solution is to utilize the brief periods, 60 of them per second, when the flying spot has finished scanning the scene and is waiting for an instant before scanning it again. The phototubes are "blind" during this period, so the Du Mont engineers provide stroboscopic lights that flash brightly 60 times per second. To the slow-acting human eye they seem steadily luminous, but as far as the TV apparatus is concerned, they are not shining at all. All it can see is a dark room scanned by a flying spot...