Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnegie Hall. His interpretation of Paganini's Concerto in D Major met with especial acclaim. But soon Van der Meer was forgotten. In 1915, he became blind, after a long illness. He spent six years in the Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan. Recently he was pronounced cured-but his sight had left him forever...
With the fliers out of sight, the crowd watched the west. The broadcaster droned: "Here comes Mills." Then: "Here comes Skeel. Note his speed." Down from a great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five...
...business outlook continues uncertain and without general trend. Industrial news has been fairly good, on the basis of the heavier seasonal fall and winter activity rather than particular forward progress. Textiles are not yet out of the woods, however, and nowhere is any boom in sight. Cutting of gasoline prices, while temporarily painful to producers and refiners, is a constructive and necessary step in the long...
...undergraduate, are eligible. Those who previously sung in the Club need not take a second entrance trial; but they should report at the first rehearsal, Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 o'clock in Sever 11, and sign a registration card. Candidates need bring no music to the trials. Sight reading will not be required, but men will be tested upon scales with a view to ascertaining the range and quality of their voices...
...Firth of Forth is a dour, great inlet where the tide rushes in and out from the North Sea at great velocity and where the sixth longest bridge in the world supplies "see-ers" with a "sight." Britain's battle fleet uses it as a base. Scotsmen, particularly Edinburghers who dwell near its troubled expanse, boast of its majesty and dangers. But few think of swimming across it; and none of those who have tried have ever succeeded-until last week. Then W. E. Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, girded up his loins, plunged in at Burntisland...