Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Youngsters attending the one-room schoolhouse at Perry Siding, B.C., saw a strange sight as they trooped out of class for their lunch recess one day last week. Ranged outside the school was a crowd of 75 buff-bare men and women, members of the unruly Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect,* staging one of their nude protest parades...
...that the Government's goals are in sight, the Administration plans to put an end to fast write-offs in most industries. But since fast write-offs worked such industrial miracles in emergencies, why should the practice not be made permanent? One objection is that most of the expansion is paid for by money that otherwise would have been paid in taxes. For this reason, and the fact that the quick write-off has been misused by some corporations, Congress' Hardy Subcommittee has denounced the policy as "the biggest bonanza that ever came down the Government pike...
...wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that enables him to corral all the criminals, clear his name, and settle down happily in a rose-covered gas station with Actress Keyes, who has had a change of heart...
...Navy ivory tower now grown so tall that the big brass not only can't see the trees but are fast losing sight of the forest itself? Of course it is the height of giddy conceit to think that a seagull can be made the bull to a school of whales. The appointment of a naval aviator, Rear Admiral Frank Akers, as ACNO for undersea warfare [TIME, Aug. 24], seems to be forcing just such an arrangement. In their effort to keep apace with the Air Force in projecting themselves into the pushbutton future, the Navy has apparently relegated...
...Rivers elementary school so that each classroom would open directly outside. They used cherry red brick both inside & out, painted window trims bright yellow, built paved spaces outside of primary rooms for outdoor teaching. Said the Atlanta Constitution when the school opened: "Not a gargoyle in sight . . . The end of the peanut-butter sandwich...