Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central New England. The huge silver airship was first seen from Harvard Square as it floated over East Cambridge. At the time the Shenandoah was reported to be logging 58 knots, or considerable more than 60 miles an hour. By 12.50 o'clock it had passed out of sight beyond Belmont...
...very easy to understand and to sympathize with the natural objections to these proposals. 'At first sight, the idea of a gymnasium or a dormitory does not seem to accord with the spirit of a memorial. But it is only necessary to think of Harkness at Yale or of the Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton to dispel the prejudice against a "utilitarian" memorial. At its best a new dormitory might be a Harvard Harkness; at its worst it would serve a useful purpose. At i's best a new chapel would be a glorious, if somewhat lifeless, architectural monument...
...dominate all situations."-So said Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman's Party, in announcing the Fall plans of the Party. The present aim of the National Woman's Party is a Constitutional Amendment giving women absolute equality with men in the sight...
...naturally does not approve the choice of Frank B. Kellogg, one of his Republican opponents, to be Ambassador to Britain. A reporter suggested to Magnus that Mr. Kellogg, like Colonel Harvey, might take to silk knee breeches, " Magnavox " roared: "Those black pants on Frank Kellogg would sure be a sight for sore eyes...
...Universities of Breslau and Berlin and the Zurich Polytechnic, specializing in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and electrical engineering. In 1889 a young American schoolmate persuaded him to come with him to America in the steerage. Steinmetz has been a life-long hunchback, and this, with a temporary illness, defective sight, no money, little English, almost kept him out of the U. S. But the Ellis Island officials finally admitted him on the pleas of his friend. He got a job as a draftsman from Rudolf Eickemeyer, an electrical inventor and manufacturer of electric motors, generators and streetcars, at Yonkers...