Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reappearance of Alfred Quackenbush as quarterback of the Middle-bury football team will add an element of uncertainty to the football game this afternoon. Quackenbush has a disconcerting ability at drop-kicking which may have been lost sight of during his absence from Middlebury last year. In 1921 his drop-kicking was the big factor in winning the Vermont State champion ship of that year. Against Vermont he kicked two field goals, giving his team a score of 6-0 and in the Norwich game his drop kick accounted for Middlebury's 3-0 victory...
...Howard, he is somewhat expurgated but still romantic. The only real amour that dramatic exigencies permit him is one with Henrietta. The 300 others are sufficiently indicated in the delightful ballet-prologue. But space is left for the repentance of his dotage when, 20 years later, soothed by the sight of his illegitimate daughter, he dies kissing the carpet she has just walked over. A couple of kitchen maids spurn his defunct form with the epitaph, " Poor...
...those who have felt that France entered the Ruhr in part at least because of her desire for security, the idea of a separate state will appeal at first sight as perhaps a good substitute for Marshal Foch's famous "left bank of the Rhine." To those, on the other hand, who see in the occupation merely the desire to enforce Reparation payments, the idea will suggest the possibility of guaranteeing Franco-German peace on the basis of a buffer and neutral state. But multiplication of small states-buffer or neutral-has never in the past served the cause...
...post. But this proved to be merely the darkness before dawn. Mr. Alfred Winsor, has, since 1917, kept himself as much as possible out of the public eye: but hockey at the University has fortunately continued to feel his influence and has never allowed him out of its sight. Now when it has fallen upon stony ground, Mr. Winsor has returned to the rescue...
Solo playing and sight-reading will be required of each candidate and each will be tested individually. The management reports that cellists and men playing more than one instrument are the most scarce at present...