Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business genius of Walter Clark Teagle. Once, not so long ago, he was indecisive about a career. He had done so well by getting his Cornell B. S. degree in chemistry in three years (he matriculated at 18) that that University offered him an instructorship with a professorship in sight. The initial salary of $600 annually tempted him little. However, the academic life...
...great danger involved in a general or sympathetic strike is the possibility that the original grievances which are the primary causes of the strike, and which are, in this case, meritoricus, may be lost sight of because of the charge that the general strike is a challenge to Government and to the existence of Government...
...fine sight," continued Mr. Coleman growing more and more enthusiastic, "to watch groups of people marching up and down the streets, singing and cheering; and to see the men and women standing in the picket lines. As a matter of fact, the women do best in the lines, much better than the men, and if the strike is won, as it undoubtedly will be, it will be as a result of the efforts and bravery of the women...
...what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment on the trip when, looking back to Manhattan, you see the city cleft by the canyon of Broadway. I say that the Grand Canyon has nothing to equal that sight...
...When the convulsions of the mountain sent the slowly creeping river of slag down upon them, they pushed off from shore in their outrigger canoes, abandoning their efforts to placate the goddess Pele* with offerings of burned pig, herbs, liquor and prayers. Passengers on a steamship had a gorgeous sight of a white-hot avalanche plunging into the sea with a roar like a host of locomotives belching blood-colored smoke and towering geysers of steam...