Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening of the second quarter of the twentieth century. T. E. Terrill 1G., chairman; a group interested in the discussion of current religious questions, W. H. Clark 1G., chairman; an Economics discussion group. A. N. Moore 2G., chairman; an English discussion group, W. H. Cary 1g., chairman; a Sight-Seeing group, S. B. Jon3w 1G., chairman...
...warm Gulf currents meet the Arctic flows at the "cold wall." Their duties are to spot the huge chunks of ice by their own lookouts or from the wire-lessed reports of other ships, to destroy such bergs by explosives if possible, otherwise to keep them ever in sight, reporting twice a day their whereabouts to ships which might be struck and to the U. S. hydrographic office at Washington. Fogs and other weather conditions too are radioed, and on this news the weather department partly bases its reports for the eastern coast regions...
...catch them and get into their noses and out again, the adult flies must range immense tracts of country at terrific speed. To the human eye, their passing is "of such incredible swiftness that one is utterly unable to initiate any movement whatever toward capture" before they vanish from sight. "Form is not sensed by the eye as they pass, but merely a blur or streak of color, and only a fleeting glimpse of that." Dr. Townsend estimates their speed at upwards of 400 yards a second. Arguing that it is certain that what has been attained by animals...
...example, whil the percentage of Seniors seeking distinction has increased in one year ten percent and in two years eighteen the proportion actually achieving it has slightly fallen off. The wish is evidently not father to the deed. The much heralded post-war renaissance of study seems at first sight not to go beyond the vaporings of a fatile ambition. If, however, the undoubted fact be weighed that the college's four-year tax on labor has become progressively more severe, then the evidence that distinction that men have held their own and men who want distinction have doubled...
...Riveria and love come back and warn their daughters-in-law "not to make the same mistake I did, my dear." Do you admire a girl who, with a horrible example staring her in the face, can go off with a firm determination on the same chase? Does the sight of Romance battling with the forces of Society and The Right Thing, faltering, seeming to lose, and then winning after all, delight your soul? Go to the Circle. Lost in its labyrinths you will cry out, "But things like this don't happen." As indeed they...