Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ridicule all that has been found valuable in the past. Only by some such inscrutable order of things can progress be made and the world kept from complete stagnation. A system of this sort is not injurious, moreover, because young reformers are as a rule mercifully preserved from a sight of their own more or less awkward figures...
...67th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society convened in Washington under the Presidency of Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of bakelite. R. S. McBride, President of the Washington section, welcomed the convention, and it was entertained by cinemas, teas, receptions, dances, sight-seeings, excursions to Government laboratories, to Mount Vernon, to Edgewood Arsenal. President Coolidge received the chemists...
...pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop rapidly, throw out too- much ballast to check his descent, shoot up and lose more gas. "Bobbing up and down," he soon exhausts both gas and ballast and must land, throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. This year's elimination race was held under exceptionally favorable circumstances, with a steady, strong wind almost due north. Superiority in handling asserted itself as usual. All the balloons sailed away late in the evening at five-minute intervals Two balloons were forced down about the middle of next...
MacLaren-his worst troubles are yet to be. (P. 30.) The throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. (P. 28.) Loud-speaking Germans who want their colonies back. (P. 10.) Old Gutenberg's largest and blackest headline. (P. 26.) 1 A bare-legged party leader. (P. 10.) Skilled laborers working day and night to complete a jet black tomb. (P. 11.) An ignorant family. (P. 6.) An avalanche of foreign physicians...
...institutions the immediate result victory, is overemphasized. The bigger and finer things, such as better relations, a broader viewpoint and the thrill of the competition itself are some-times overlooked in the desire to win. Victory become so large the greater benefits hidden behind intercollegiate competition are lost from sight. It is unfortunate that the relation between these tangible and intangible ideals should sometimes become distorted but it is often the case and cannot be denied...