Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
They were urged to endorse it sight-unseen as "a duty of unconditional loyalty to the State." As if this were not enough to stagger politicians and jolt the Peace of Europe, the article concluded gloatingly that while Italy has a standing military force of only 329,000 men "the new Military Power in Central Europe musters total military effectives...
...York. Some thief was stealing jewelry from the passengers' cabins; $25,000 worth was missing without a clue. With 600 stewards aboard, most of whom were as yet unknown to the officers, it looked like a hopeless case. Capt. Ziegenbein assembled 50 stewards whom the officers did know by sight, formed a ''vigilance committee." Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief in a steward's uniform, wearing a counterfeit steward's badge. Officials suspected Prisoner Barklage of a part in the $100,000 theft last year from mail...
...have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition it (and the physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that the reappearance of a stimulus causes the old response. Sight of a milk bottle makes the baby suck his lips. Sleep, he considers, is the result of inhibitions keeping stimuli from overworking the brain or causing it to do useless work. The human brain, he told the physiologists, is the most fruitful and most important study now confronting science...
...Brisbane's memory is not always perfect. It was Alice herself who changed size, when she nibbled pieces of the Caterpillar's mushroom. The Cheshire Cat, constant in size, faded in and out of sight. tin this fable, the frozen snake came to, bit the Woodman...