Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered by the Russians 15 years ago, was the next objective. General Nobile hoped to land a scientific party on Lenin Land but so thick was the falling snow, so menacing the cold and dreary waste, that after hunting in vain for a sight of the land, the project was abandoned and the Italia's nose pointed toward Spitsbergen...
...last week, surcease seemed in sight. The governors of the Exchange ordered that for a time trading, which begins at 10 a. m., shall stop at 2:00 p. m., instead of at 3 :00 p. m. In four hours less shares can be traded than in five; clerks will have less to record. London long has had four-hour trading days. Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago exchanges may also close early, not because they are frustrated by business but because their activity depends on New York...
Today is to be one of sports and sight-seeing excursions for the assembled alumni, with the University Band supplying music throughout the day. Trips through the historical sections of Philadelphia, and other points of interest, will be followed this afternoon by a baseball game between the University and Pennsylvania teams, and the crew races on the Schuylkill between Harvard, Pennsylvania and the Navy...
...last three events of the meet at New Haven last spring the University was leading the Blue by three points, with victory in sight, for the half-mile and the 220-yard dash were figured as Crimson events, with Captain E. C. Haggerty '27 and A. H. Miller '27 entered. Haggerty had already won the mile against fast competition, and found the pace of the half-mile too fast, while Captain Paulsen of Yale ran wild for a win over Miller in the furlong. These events and the low hurdles decided the meet, which fell to Yale...
Disinterested students of New York's subway jam noticed things which seemed lost sight of in the legal-political confusion. I. R. T. officials admitted that a 7-cent fare would not eliminate the almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even...