Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shipping Board opened the bids submitted for the sale of all its vessels, and found that, like Pandora's box, they contained many troubles and a ray of hope. There were only about 20 bids. Of that number, four at first sight seemed fairly satisfactory; about the same number, as Chairman Lasker expressed it, were in "the twilight zone"; there was one freak bid of $1,000,000,000 for the entire fleet; and a dozen or so bids that seemed manifestly unsatisfactory...
...seems to be an inspiration from Revelations, IV: "After this I looked . . . and behold a throne was set in heaven and One sat on the throne. And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." The rest of the painting treats of the Apostles and the Nativity. After the casts over the fresco were removed, the cheese was scraped off by hand...
...performances-now, in fact that summer is icumen in and the cut-rate ticket agencies are ready to cry " Cuckoo! " at their more expensive brethren-it is not out of order to consider some aspects of the season now moribund. The outstanding fact would seem to be, at first sight, the unquestionable success of an English dramatist, William Shakespeare, upon the American stage. New York has seen Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet break all their previous long-run records for America-besides a good production of The Merchant of Venice, an expensive, if unsuccessful, one of At, You Like...
...advanced to second on F.S. Hill's sacrifice. Keegan filed out to the catcher and it looked as if another inactive inning was about to be brought to a close. At this point, however, Young stepped into a fast delivery of Neubauer's and lifted it almost out of sight for a home run, giving the Crimson a lead which was never once threatened...
...average sporting scrivener should step out of the press box at the Polo Grounds and exchange his ordinary raiment for a Giant baseball uniform there might be a riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer...