Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is another consideration less evident at first sight. A significant result of the first two contests has been the relations that have been established between the offices of the Times and the leaders in the examinations. Last year the winner of the competition, a Princeton senior, secured a permanent position on the editorial board and in many other cases contacts were made that should prove productive in later years...
...good fellowship and all the jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps...
Along the road to Ponca City, Okla., last week, two motorists halted at the sight of an overturned roadster. They found under the car the body of a man, his head pinned beneath a front wheel. On the way to a hospital the injured man died. He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man. With his death passed the second of the three Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch was famed throughout the Southwest, whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was famed throughout the world. Col. Joe Miller, onetime head of ranch and show, was found dead...
...haven't a job in sight," he said. "It is the first time I have been out of work since my graduation from Harvard...
...possible of the simplicity, ease of handling and shiny finish of the motor car. Motor boats are sold not to sailors but to motor car owners and their families. To build a boat that a landsman can operate-and that in most cases he never will operate out of sight of land-to build an engine that is as nearly as possible foolproof, to upholster softly, use bright colors and plenty of nickel: these are the present day objec tives of the motor boat designer. Thus, a Sea Sled salesman, addressing an unnautical prospect, explained the mooring of the boat...