Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first sight it might seem unwise to adopt unconditionally a system formerly discarded but the New Hampshire bill appears to be in reality an unusually far-sighted compromise between the two methods. It provides for party conventions whose nominations shall in ordinary cases take the place of expensive and possibly corrupt primaries, at the same time safoguarding the rights of the individual by making it possible for a candidate with sufficient support to appeal for a regular election, if dissatisfied with the decision of the convention of his party. It is foreseen that "appeal elections" will probably be demanded...
...sudden transition from the most autocratic of monarchies founded on the military absolutism of 1870, to the most liberal republicanism seems at first sight strange and inexplicable. Yet upon a little reflection the reasons for the change become more clear...
...could be registered until inoculated. As more and more dogs were brought the pandemonium increased. There was little time to sterilize the needles, none in which to soothe the frightened or angry dogs. Female dog owners fainted fearing the sight of blood. Male dog owners fought with the doctors in several instances to keep their pets from being jabbed. Finally a cordon of mounted police was drawn around the dog registry, foot gendarmes rushed in and quelled the near riot, the long drawn howls grew plaintive, ceased...
...together on a screen he had arranged 24 mirrors on the periphery of a swiftly rotating drum. The reflection of a series of rapidly changing images induced the optical effect of a moving picture, after the fashion of a cinema film. The possibilities: synchronized with sound-carrying radio, the sight-carrying radio might some day bring before the eyes of a man in Kankakee, Ill., the coronation of a king in Westminister;* it might enable folk to "go to the theatre" by turning a switch. Immediate possibilities: "air letters" (facsimiles) transmitted faster than they could be read; radio-cinema...
...millionaire cowherd of Arizona rambles all over Europe on the indefinite trail of Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over "that Eldorado tribe...