Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer in his own harbor than in any foreign port at which he has landed. Not more rigid inspection, but merely less component maneuvers of government officials, mysterious and inscrutable, keep the Traveller alert for hours beneath the statue, his trip over, his baggage ready, his friends just beyond sight on the dock waiting. Perhaps a new wrist watch on high might record the wasted hours and remind the inspectors of the value of time...
...course the most thrilling thing in my pictorial record is the series of pictures we took of Irvine and Mallory when they climbed up into the snow and out of sight...
...wind was increasing steadily, however, and the moments when they were hidden by snow grew more frequent and longer. They reached a point we know to be about 900 feet from the top. Then a flurry of wind and snow hid them from sight for some time and when we again saw them 75 feet approximately had been gained. We watched them struggle on another 25 feet and again a blast of snow made it impossible for us to know where they were. The air was filled with snow for a long time. For how many minutes I couldn...
Historians and lovers of the arts found their thoughts a little stirred, as always, by the name of those art patrons par excellence, the Borghese. Il Benito, as he rode through their onetime gardens* was well within sight of the Villa Borghase-next to the Vatican the chiefest art treasure-house in Rome. He may have reflected that Napoleon, to whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese...
...over a mile away from the watchers. With oxygen tanks strapped to their backs, necessary because of the highly rarified atmosphere. Mallory and Irvine struggled on until they dwindled to black pinpoints in the camera's lens. At times blasts of snow and wind hid them completely from sight. Finally, 800 feet from the top, they were obscured by a stronger gust which lasted for some time. When the air was clear again there was no sign of the adventurers...