Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term occupying several lines of newsprint. Mr. Khaldah concentrated, could not pronounce the term but spelled it out correctly. Mr. Swift was informed of the date and place of his father's birth. Dr. Breasted wrote out a sentence in Arabian and hid it. Mr. Khaldah recited it sight unseen. He stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they pictured mentally; uttered correctly combinations of figures in the hundred-thousands; rendered pieces of remembered music. When they departed, not one of the distinguished guests had a satisfactory explanation for what they...
...will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into New York Harbor at the sight of the liners going...
...first sight the statement from President Neilson of Smith that the curriculum will be altered next year to allow much greater freedom to Freshmen and Sophomores seems to bear great significance as contrary to the strong trend away from free election and toward required general knowledge for first and second year men in the American colleges and universities today. A closer examination of just what this greater freedom means, however, immediately lends a different interpretation to the news...
...When finally the opportunity appears-a chance to ship on his uncle's boat-he suffers it to pass because love for Ruth Atkins holds him to the farm. Robert's brother, Andrew, has also fallen under Ruth's spell. Incapable of bearing the constant sight of her in the arms of his brother, Andrew, a born farmer, seeks refuge in the ship that Robert has forsaken. Both men cross their natures. Both come to ruin. After futile years of wandering, Andrew finds his way back to the fields. Robert, dying of tuberculosis and despair, stumbles...
...clipper, Witch of the West, towards the evening of the 8th of July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost, David kneels, chafes the seeming corpse's slender, blue-veined wrists, and quite disregarding the tempest, whispers long...