Word: sightings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign in Moors Hall had said Central Square only, the notice in the paper had mentioned the fire station as an alternative, and this was the fire station; but aside from a few engines, shiny red and rust-free there was nothing here and the only person in sight was this man behind the desk and he was busy...
...this decision than mere dissatisfaction with the current cheerleaders' behavior and organization. Pretty clearly the Council hopes that its athlete-cheerleaders will command more support from the stands than even the most sedate and well-organized bunch of lay-cheerers. It believes that most undergraduate spectators will know by sight at least a few of the prominent athletes holding the megaphones, and will respond more eagerly to their urgings...
Certainly there is much to be said for this plan, at least as an experiment. No one can tell, of course, until it's tried, but possibly the sight of a Harvard letter-sweater and the familiar face of an athlete will inspire undergraduate lungs to more volume...
...bigger bipartisan news to the people of the U.S. than all the week's campaign speeches put together. In the third quarter of 1958, said Ike, gross national product climbed to an annual rate of $440 billion, and "a $500 billion economy is now clearly in sight...
...copy, formerly in the Manhattan collection of Michael Friedsam, had been "authenticated" by scholars and repeatedly exhibited as genuine. For years the original was tucked out of sight at Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss's mansion in Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function...