Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning "the biggest fleet of sight-seeing busses ever allowed to pass Buckingham Palace gates" carried the legionnaries to their Majesties' home...
...cutters, the Tampa and Modoc, alternate in patrolling the ice region for 15 successive days, and at the end of that time one patrol vessel is relieved by the other which rests in Halifax. The oceanographic staff, however, is obliged to spend over six months without sight of land, changing from one cutter to the other by lifeboat. The duties of this staff are numerous and consist of broadcasting radio reports to all vessels in the vicinity, making charts of the behavior of the bergs and of studying general oceanic conditions. The Green-Bigelow bottle, invented by H. B. Bigelow...
...cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death, fled...
...Morgan banking affiliations and 57,000 stockholders to consider in every maneuver. Yet the Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast of the moving public target. It has carefully trained its sales organization so that it can sight its market more efficiently; Ford devotes little thought to merchandising, preferring to make such a wow of a howitzer that the market will get into the line with...
...reappearance of the Student Vagabond in the CRIMSON's columns provides opportunity for an exposition of the Vagabond's aim and purpose. A department whose function is necessarily restricted to a large and variegated university, its appeal is so inclusive as to appear, at first sight, inextricably diffuse. Out of scores of courses how can the superlatives-the most informative, most interesting, most impressive be chosen so as to meet the tastes of all? How can one be sure that those sitting in on lectures recommended by the Vagabond are not disappointed or even worse...