Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of the benefits of discipline and freedom accruing to undergraduates should sight be lost of the benefits, perhaps indirect to be gained by the Faculty. When the responsible student becomes sole judge of the comparative advantages to himself of attendance or absence at a given lecture those lecturers on whom the verdict is unfavorable will suffer a sharp awakening from empty classrooms. In its tonic effect on dull and profitless instructors lies by no means the least promise of Yale Harvard's new departure...
...lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...
...Graduate School of the University in 1917. In August 1917 he became incrested in aviation and went to the flying fields at Pensacola, Florida. He was the first aviator to advocate and practice flying by night over water, and the first who flew over water out of sight of land. From July 1918, until the Armistice he was in charge of the United States airforces of Canada. Hal fax and North Sydney. For his work during the World War he was awarded the Silver Star for exceptionally meritorious service and the Aviator's Medal of Merit...
...Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. The closing ceremonies were gorgeous, drawing some 70,000 clerics and lay people into St. Peter's itself, and many thousands of the more humble into the public square outside, where they got a vicarious spiritual elation from the processional screened from their sight...
...hullabaloo over the organization of the new Senate and House, it is easy to lose sight of a situation of great significance in American government which has long been crying for correction. Like every other Congress in the history of the federal government, this present one is holding its first session no less than thirteen months after its election. To be specific, the eighty-ninth Congress was elected in November, 1924, at the same time that Mr. Coolidge defeated Davis and LaFollette, one of whom has since died while the other has passed far beyond the pale of popular memory...