Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This announcement would at first sight appear to shine like a good omen in a world of unweaned radicals. But examination proves it to be no more than a tardy sanity. "No more Reforms" signifies nothing, since reforms in the best sense result only from a desire to remove evils, and even the cheeriest optimist cannot hope to forestall all corruptions. The News' resolve to avoid platforms is praiseworthy, only because such platforms are usually a collection of meaningless sentences...
...history. His family has dealt with Latin-American countries before. His grandfather once brought peace to four of them. If Hamilton Fish Jr. predicts conquest of Mexico, it is not the boasting of an upstart though it may be the patriotic arrogance of a man in whose sight 100 years are but as a session of Congress...
...first sight such a policy might seem inequitable, but it is provided that the qualifications for admission will remain unaltered while the number of immigrants will not be enlarged. It is pointed out that every year some 2000 certificates remain unused. How better could they be applied than to avoid the shortcomings of necessary provisions? The mechanics of immigration regulations is a matter for experts, but the most inexperienced can appreciate an effort to introduce a measure of discretion to problems where an Iron-clad ruling cannot fall, sometimes to be unfair...
Republic, West 42nd St.--If this is not exactly a good play it has attained the position of being one of New York's things-to-be-seen, and after the show you can go across the street to Huber's museum and see another equally interesting sight: the flea circus. Both are uproarious...
Football, like any other collegiate sport, is and should be if it is not, of, by, and for the undergraduate. President Lowell pointed this out very clearly in his report. It is a point worth making and repeating over and over again, for losing sight of it is responsible for the troubles which beset intercollegiate football today. Football has become too much the public's business, too little the undergraduate's interest. It is hardly too much to say that the recent break between Princeton and Harvard was treated in the press as a diplomatic break between the United States...