Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to attain for people who care about it, and will devote some effort and a little skill thereto. Verily they have their reward, and one that, like riches and other worldly prizes, is a gratification to those whose hearts are set upon it; but in the sight of God not to be compared with work, inconspicuous perhaps to men, that has been built into the permanent fabric of other human souls. If your aim be more than selfish gratification, if it be to accomplish something that will make men happler and better, then the more enduring its effects...
...note to the British Government Poincare asks for cooperation in demanding that Germany end passive resistance in the Ruhr. Official circles have it that Britain will accept this proposal. Thus the beginning of a solution of the Ruhr occupation and the greater problem of reparations is definitely in sight...
...achievement, including Prof. Gustav Kolmar, Vienna physiologist, and Dr. D. D. R. Burt, of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, who has himself transplanted eyes in toads. But the majority of eye specialists and many physiologists and biologists, are dubious. A Russian doctor, Katz, recently announced the restoration of sight in blind humans by an artificial device, but not by transplantation of a living eye (TIME, April 14). And right here in Paterson, N. J., the well press-agented Lemonowicz boy had a pig's eye grafted, but without gaining the confidence of the medical profession...
...similar notions. With most these beliefs are vague. Not so with Rubinstein. He has quite a definite theory of telepathy between himself and his audiences. He always selects some person or several persons in the audience to play to. He does not need to see these chosen auditors. Second sight tells him that they are there. The quality of his playing depends largely upon whether or not he can find several of these select and sympathetic spirits in the audience, with whom he can get into telepathic rapport. Many practitioners of the public arts will tell you much the same...
Pete Herman, former bantanweight champion, who went totally blind as a result of a blow received in an exhibition bout for charity, has regained the sight of one eye. Herman had been under treatment for a year and in bed for three months with his eyes bandaged. Said he, when the gauze rolls were removed: "Thank God, I can see! I will never fight again, but I'll be a manager...