Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficient to the task is remarkable. Yet she shows an understanding of the part which is admirable and there is never a moment when she does not exert herself to lend the play all her energy. She is running a race, in which her eye must not lose sight of the goal, but a race in which form, stride, and ability to take frequent hurdles are judged as heavily as the end reached. On Monday night she brought the part as near reality as time, practice and personality would permit. A few more performances will see her satisfying those...
...demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure the timid, let them turn to "Do Characters in Fiction Behave Like Human Beings" for fresh proof that this doctor's interests and understanding can reach from Harold Bell Wright to Anatole France without losing sight of actual human conduct. Let them examine "The Fundamentalists and Modernists of Psychology" and be assured that Dr. Collins takes his Freud with a prodigious grain of salt, practical and historical...
...When Columbus first saw the Mosquito Indians on his fourth voyage to America he was depressed rather than impressed by the sight. They were low barbarians without even strings of pearls diplomats...
...document begins with an admirable survey of post war European economic conditions. The disastrous effects of higher and more numerous tariff walls, restrictions, and prohibitions are accurately surveyed. "Too many states," reads the report, "in pursuit of false ideals of national interest, have imperilled their own welfare and lost sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war." This paragraph, and two others that follow might have been lifted bodily from Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics". They are overflowing with sound economic...
Fifth Game. Once more Pennock, as deliberate as a garbageman stood against Sherdel, vehement, in baggy trousers. For five innings Sherdel, famed for his delayed ball, pitched perfectly; his slow curves wound whitely up to the plate and winked out of sight into Catcher O'Farrell's glove while Yankee batsmen swore and pirouetted. But in the ninth inning Pinch Hitter Paschal smashed a single to centre scoring Gehrig, tying the score, 2 to 2. An extra inning gave the Yankees victory. Score: New York. 3; St. Louis...