Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John, the orangeman's cart, and donkey. The transformation which has taken place around the college during the last thirty-five years is seen in a picture of the Square in 1885. The square looks very quiet with only a few teams and a couple of horse-cars in sight...
...German officer demanded it, the president of the university replied: "We have no copper; all is gone." A party of Germans then searched every corner in every room of the building, and as this group proceeded through the various halls, there walked behind them, always just out of sight, a group of Belgians carrying the copper...
...fulfillment of our dreams approaches. With a new brilliance will the lights of Cambridge shine. Soon we shall have a modern hostelry in our studious midst. Dimes will click less frequently in the Subway. Gone will be the familiar sight of the early morning straggler in the Waldorf, for in the future Hotel Harvard will receive with open arms the seeker of bright lights and jazz. University guests will no longer seek the doubtful convenience of staying in Boston and commuting to the Square. Cambridge, antiquated, solitary provincial, fades into the Cambridge of the future, a Metropolis sufficient unto itself...
...slain the wicked ogre and had borne away the princess to a happy, if thoroughly respectable, wedding. She raised her telescope once more. And once more a rescue came speeding into view upon the rim of the farthest horizon and once more he turned and field as he caught sight of the wicked ogre. She wondered if the world had grown too old for fairy tales...
...meet and exchange views with men from other colleges and throughout the world, a chance, as one man expressed it, "to get the dope on yourself" that could not have been offered by a small convention or through ordinary discussion. There was something remarkably imposing in the mere sight of seven thousand delegates representing all races and nationalities gathered under a single roof. That was one of the things which helped make the conference broad...