Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been formulated with little attention to their practical application. Socialists are sometimes too much impressed by the defects in the social order and, in their efforts to bring about a greater degree of equality and a fairer distribution of wealth, they run the danger in their theories of losing sight of variety in opportunity and accomplishment...
...Swiss regiment passing one of the frontier stations on the Italo-Swiss border became incensed at the sight of some Fascisti. They cried out: "Down with Italy!" "Down with the Fascisti!" "Down with Mussolini!" This incident had two results: Lieutenant Guido Gavani challenged Colonel Gusser, commander of the Swiss regiment, to a duel for slurring the fair name of Fascismo. Benito Mussolini, swallowing his own pride, called upon the Swiss Government to apologize for having insulted Italy. The Swiss Government uttered its concern and promised an inquiry and punishment for the offenders...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Still pretending that the West is a place where weaklings are shot on sight, but getting good laughs for all its papier maché plot...
...choice has without doubt been regulated by circumstances of availability etc. But we have believed that in thus following the line of least resistance the Union has temporarily lost sight of the principle of presenting both sides--a principle necessary for fairness and, even more, for education. So we have reiterated this principle, as being more important than circumstances. In so doing we have, conversely condemned the opposite principle of suppression...
...sight of Massachusetts Hall, with its charred woodwork, its broken windows, and the surrounding litter of lathes and plaster gives that building a prominence which it has not enjoyed for seveveral generations. Massachusetts Hall has become a harmonious part of the landscape of the Yard. Like the elms, and the columms on University Hall it looks very nice in etchings; but its practical value has undergone a sad decline...