Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitiable sight and is beyond the power of the human mind to conceive or the tongue to characterize that a man should be worthy of a seat in this body and should, after several days' deliberation, take the halfway course of volunteering a half-hearted apology for an offense which he has neither the courage nor the intelligence to justify or withdraw...
...drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian, who was Greeley's running-mate, was not known (by sight) in Manhattan, so Cartoonist Nast pictured him as a tag on Greeley's white coat. But Greeley fared even worse. A few days before the election Greeley's wife died. Greeley himself wrote a few days later: "I was the worst beaten man who ever ran for high...
...least, they should never be. The mobile and plastic character of youth defy all weighing and balancing with an eye to future usefulness. How often have contemporary judgments of youth shown the futility of the attempt! Many a young firebrand, after showing great promise, has drifted out of sight and has never been heard of more; many an obscure thinker and plodder has surprised an indifferent world with bursts of unsuspected power...
...ghosts there now. They will talk of many men and many things. They will know the faces and the ways of those they knew as boys, who are now grown to great affairs. They will know the faces and the ways of some who have slipped out of sight. These ghosts will wander about the dignified old hall and wait for better times. Whiting in the Boston Herald...
...period of totality will vary from only a few seconds to about two minutes in the favored points near the centre of the belt. During this brief period will be visible the rare sight of the sun's corona, ejections of gas driven out some millions of miles from the sun's seething fireball. This corona casts a ghostly light and exhibits itself around the dark rim of the moon, a glow from the sun at the inner ring, radiating outward in soft tints like a halo. Meanwhile, the sky is darkened and the stars are visible. Near the moon...