Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still more painful is another aspect of the Dartmouth murals. The recklessness that allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never...
Two hours and 54 miles away from San Quentin, the convicts sighted a creamery, jumped. The convict-clothed boardmen tumbled out of the careening automobile, screaming their identity just in time to keep police from shooting them down. The convict leader peered from a creamery window, got two barrels of...
Threading its way up Manhattan's crowded East River one night last week with 126 passengers aboard, the Colonial Line steamship Lexington (New York-Providence) sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly...
Discovery of the first comet on record since 1933, which was sighted Tuesday ninth at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa, was announced to the North American continent yesterday by the Harvard Observatory. The message was related to Cambridge from Copenhagen.
But not for long. One day in September 1917 Captain Claret was standing on the bridge of the Minnehaha when a German submarine drilled her with a torpedo off the Head of Kinsale. Within two minutes the ship literally sank beneath Claret's feet and left him kicking in...