Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of the Stinnes concerns relate to the new turn in German currency matters. While the mark was shooting downward toward practical worthlessness, Hugo Stinnes bought everything in sight of a tangible character, and went deeply into debt also. Later, he paid off many of his debts at bargain prices-hence his enormous profits. Meanwhile, he had as little working capital as possible, and the minimum resources in actual money...
...confident that, in an afternoon's automobile ride around the Cincinnati hills, Mr. Davey or anyone else who knows trees could pick out 100 buckeyes. In the spring, they are the first of the trees to put forth their leaves and lovely flowers, and it is a great sight here to see these radiant green trees standing in the forest that is otherwise dull and colorless...
...long winter. The balmy days of Spring were deceptive, for the nights were frosty and cold. But at last the burning sun promises to scorch everything in sight for three long months, mists of steam are rising from the rice fields, and the annual Summer war is on again in China...
...most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their evening in the country to watch this brilliant assembly. John Drew, who shares with Mrs. Fiske the greatest honors of our Theatre, played through the whole week despite his advancing years, his failing sight-despite the temperature. The cheers that greeted him must have made it all worth while and more so. And the performance that he gave caused the most determined modernists of our spectators to shake their heads a trifle sadly and note that, although ideas, mechanisms, money have done much...
Wrong opinions come mainly from lack of sight, from not seeing far enough, or widely enough, or from obstacles in the line of vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite...