Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the end of the coal shortage in sight, however distantly, Attorney General Daugherty is taking steps to prevent profiteering in anthracite in the future. He ordered filed in the United States District Court at New York a final decree for separation of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from its coal subsidiaries, pursuant to the Supreme Court order...
What a lawyer may do and still remain an honest man in the sight of his profession is something of which the average man feels at liberty to make light. A lawyer may be tried for unethical conduct and disbarred if he be found guilty. Occasionally a lawyer of conspicuous standing is compelled to explain...
Much interest is taken in England in the problems of air gliding. People on a London common saw a strange sight-an elderly gentleman playing with a toy aeroplane. He was Dr. E. H. Hankin, M. A., D. Sc., author of Animal Flight (a book dealing with the science of living flight), and he was experimenting with a model glider...
...ideal of the college as a place for training by the trial-and-error method, rather than a direct preparation for specific tasks, is frequently lost sight of. Surely one of its duties is to open before the student panoramic glimpses of the different fields of knowledge, and help him to find the one in which his work will give him the greatest satisfaction. This the elective system makes possible; but in itself it is not sufficient. Many men come to college pre-determined; others slip into the first groove that they find convenient, and forget that there...
This Jeritza is a miracle of that vague quality we call personality. No one of those present at the time will forget his first sight of her in Die Tote Stadt a year ago. The wizardly clever but banal music had woven a climax for a superb entrance. A door swung open, and on the upper landing of a low stairway a flame of orange appeared, a Juno-like figure radiant in smiles and a blond glamor. That was Jeritza...