Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Pacific Railroad and forced a host of humanitarian laws through the legislature that lifted the state at once to a high place among our most progressive states. As a campaigner Mr. Johnson compared well with the late Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Coolidge, on the other hand, was lost sight of even beside the late Mr. Harding...
...Crimson team's efforts last night. Doomed to inglorious rout by the pre-game predictions of the wiseacres, the University horsemen came from behind in each of last night's round-robin matches and all but won in both cases. Whether due to natural development or to the sight of blue jerseys on the backs of their opponents, the work of the Crimson players far outshone their earlier efforts. Kent was the particular star of the evening, ably seconded by Stranahan...
...have had courses with both undergraduates and graduates," he said. "The former I knew only by sight, but in my lectures I have felt them to be very responsive. My class of graduates, however, was small, and I did with them exactly as I would do in France, taking them as if they had been French students. At first they were a little surprised at my methods, but they quickly adapted themselves, and their work has been very satisfactory--in fact marvellous...
...honest-to-goodness "lark". No one double the ability of the young detectives to impersonate the "college boy" perfectly--so the damage will be irreparable. Walters will hide their faces, and what will be much worse, their stores of liquors, whenever a "college boy" heaves in sight; proprietors will see that he is conducted to the farther-most table in the most dismal corner; and patrons will eye him askance with that contemptuous respect ordinarily reserved for enforcers...
...cats must be muzzled, said an official edict at Berlin. Any pussyfooted quadruped will be shot on sight if it is muzzleless. The measure was thought necessary owing to several cases of "feline hydrophobia" having been discovered...