Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning, things were more favorable for him. He took a sight. The official count was put off for a week. In the unofficial count, Brookhart had 447,523 votes to Steck's 446,407-a lead of a bare 1,100 votes. The Presidential vote, however, was Coolidge 515,759, LaFollette 259,742, Davis...
...scientist, one Elizabeth S. Semmens. Working under the auspices of the Bedford College for Women, London, she proved that the growth of plants was nourished by moonshine, which is no more than polarized light, a stimulant to the digest of starch. Light consists of vibrations across the line of sight-vibrations up and down, right and left, and all the angles in between. Polarized light is light that has acquired, by reflection, a single group of positive and negative vibrations-vibrations that have motion to and fro in only one line of direction. When polarized light is passed through starch...
...decision on any problems that may arise and not for imposing upon the mind the decisions of others. This ideal of intellectual freedom is unattainable in a world where everyone is convinced of the absolute truth of all his own beliefs, but the ideal should be kept in sight, not cast lightly away...
...sight of Doctor James Moffat of Glasgow dangling from he gallows would have rejoiced the heart of Professor Francis Child. Doctor Moffat has published a translation in modern English of the entire Old Testament. Acting on the principle that the King James version is a vast, unweeded garden, the Doctor has rolled up scholarly sleeves and has planted a garden where no archaisms grow. For exactly what reasons he believes that "a barge of cypress wood wit cabin accommodations" is more appropriate than ark, or that the term, park, is more comprehensible to modern readers than the Garden of Eden...
...Hammond's punting the Crimson had little to be proud of in the first half. Harvard and Holy Cross had the ball about an equal length of time, and while both were able to make substantial gains at times, neither could do so when a scoring opportunity was in sight, except for the Purple's lucky tally on a fumble by Miller...