Word: sightedness
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The sea, like the breath of mythical and playful goddesses, goes to the heads of worldlings. It gives them an inexplicable grandeur, a constant vibration between excitement and ease, a strange language. Take, for example, the events at Santander, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks...
The man did not jump at night but in broad daylight or he wouldn't be writing this; the liner did not put out a lifeboat until the man had been sighted, nor would there, under any circumstances, be any point in so doing. The man -is not now...
Jack Vannard, head boy of the Piccadilly Hotel, London, held a pudding in his arms as he sighted Manhattan's skyline from the deck of the Berengaria. It was consigned to Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously...
The other small schooners in the race -Mohawk, Nina, Pinta - were nearing the coast of Spain, if the ocean was kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina...
The Atlantic was the first to be sighted off the Azores. At Santander, King Alfonso waited to greet and reward the winner (see P. 14).