Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance of a live fox running loose on Fifth avenue, to advertise a New York furrier, calls to mind the advertising methods of days gone by. Ten years ago such a sight would hardly have been a surprise; today its chief result is the summoning of the S. P. C. A. "Trick" advertising is rapidly becoming obsolete. The day of the sandwich man is gone; the dropping of samples from balloons, the band-wagon sign-board, the costumed buffoon wandering the streets--all are passing, with the cigar-store Indian and the druggist's colored jars. Even the blatant bill...
...suspicious characters. They first, entered B. Hyte's tailor shop and asked for a suit that had been pressed under the name of "Jackson"; failing to secure it, they later visited the Varsity Shop and attempted to obtain one under the name of "Stevens". Although Officer Wilson lost sight of one of them for a while, he eventually stopped the two as they were hurrying along together near Dunster Street and held them, assisted by a Cambridge police officer. When searched, morphine and cocaine were found in their clothes. They were locked up until called into court...
...first sight the arguments sound convincing enough; a second reading, however, reveals a misunderstanding of the facts. Until the time of President Eliot the attitude of the University was not, as Mr. Haskell assumes, that "the college was selling certain commodities and the purchaser had the right to make his own selections". On the contrary every student has to take exactly the same prescribed courses; and the freedom of choice was anything but "liberal". In more recent years, the increased freedom has indeed been accompanied by a "paternalism", which Mr. Haskell seems to decry, but which is nothing compared with...
Lieutenant Envin was a first lieutenant in the French army, was badly wounded at Beausejour and lost his eye-sight. Since then, however, he has gone on with his studies and has won the degrees of licencie-en-lettres and licencie-en-droit. He is at present the holder of the fellowship annually awarded to a young Frenchman in memory of Victor E. Chapman '13, who was killed in action while flying over Verdun...
...hard among themselves, and when all was over, the string of vituperation rankled on both sides. In latter days, these crude and unskillful methods have been discarded perhaps for those of a subtler and more effective nature; and the advent of cleaner, less personal contests seemed to be in sight...