Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. They looked over the city, selected a route which seemed to offer the best prospect. Accidental conditions might have been entirely responsible for its location, but the chief requirement was the possibility of early profit on the investment. In other words, some traffic seemed immediately in sight, with a good chance for more to quickly follow. This was the controlling consideration. The question of circulating and distributing the city's population never entered into anybody's head...
...should they? Mind you, it was a business proposition they were dealing with: Would it have been good business? No! There was congestion along the first lines. A new line was needed to relieve it. Why take the time to develop new territory when good business was immediately in sight. The answer was simple. The next line was located as near the first one as practicable. And so history has repeated itself from those old days until now through all the developments of the transit art, from the horse-car to the ten-car subway express train. Mean-while there...
...done us a service. Those occupied in going the daily round are not usually the first to see their own peculiarities, although the problem of taking advantage of any revelation rests entirely with them. The doctrine of "in mediasres" is still a sound one, even though we may lose sight of it at times...
Whatever fond hopes may have been held for the conference must by this time have nearly gone a-glimmering. The sight of twentieth-century diplomats, so-called, straining at notes and swallowing armaments, provokes either laughter or ennui--certainly not admiration. Without doubt Europe is more ready to call some sort of international truce than it has been for centuries. Yet the truce is not forthcoming. The conference has been going on long enough to have accomplished something by now; and yet no one is happy or satisfied. Expect perhaps the diplomats themselves...
...defense or none, the ancient masterpieces are dropping out of sight; and education is taking a sharp turn into the realms of the practical. No longer is there time for "those costly inutilities, that supreme intellectual indulgence." Today a knowledge of the English Language "as she is spoke" and some courses in Economics often suffice for a college degree. A man's education is not infrequently judged by his ability to answer questions from an encyclopedia. The change is welcomed by some, lamented by others; at any rate, it is here...