Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Listening to what his assistants saw was Director Edwin Brant Frost of the Yerkes Observatory. His years of looking through telescopes are over; his sight, after having served him with distinction, fails. But Mars is etched in his memory and he discussed the perennial question of Martian inhabitants. "We are agnostics on Mars up here," he said, but obliged newsgatherers with an idea of the characteristics a Martian being would have to have to live: a hide thick enough to Stand temperature ranging 150 Fahrenheit between noon and midnight; ability to migrate from 60° North Latitude...
...American Museum of Natural History is to be set aside for relics of the horse age; skeletons, plaster casts, paintings--all recalling the day when the horse was the rule, not the exception are to be stored therein. If the children of tomorrow are to be deprived of the sight of the actual animal they shall at least have an opportunity to know what it looked like...
After 20 minutes, Thomas Marshall's boat hove in sight, soon followed by a sister smack. The marooned ones edged warily from the sinking wings to the fuselage, from the fuselage toward the rudders. When Thomas Marshall was near enough to make himself heard he told them not to jump. They looked at shivering Mr. Kanevaros of Indiana and waited obediently until ropes were passed and they were all taken off. Pilot Dinsmore, now standing waist-deep, was the last. As the smack swung clear, the plane pulled her tail under and slid down to join the Spanish galleons...
...shipboard to the whaling grounds, launched overside and sent spinning over the ocean in far circles. High over the sea, air observers can "spot" a whale even though he lurk far below the surface; can flash his nautical bearings even to an invisible whaleship and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive...
...Corporation of Harvard College broadened the scope of the institution by establishing medical professorships. The money to finance the project was not in sight, but the officers of the college promised that complete anatomical and chemical apparatus, a proper place for dissections and chemical operations, as well as the requisite books, should be provided "as soon as there shall be sufficient, benefactions for these purposes," and that professors should be appointed "as soon as ways and means can be devised for raising sufficient sums for their encouragement." Meanwhile, the Corporation proposed to elect to the professorships. "Some gentlemen of public...