Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inquiry established the fact that the flaming kettles belonged where they were and in fact were necessary to dry out plaster in cold weather. The alarm was attributed to a passing law student who caught sight of flames in the supposedly deserted addition...
Item, symmetry: for earrings or a single pendant, the teardrop pearl is still fashionable, but for necklaces, bracelets, and tiaras, perfect sphericity is required. Experts know it on sight. Amateurs roll their pearls across a smooth black surface...
...very public conversation, however. Not only were the camera men there and the cinemen, but so were the "talkie" men. These protested that Mr. President had not spoken loudly enough to be "heard" by the sound-sight machinery that was to reproduce the little scene for distribution throughout the land. Moreover a cineman came scurrying along late. "I have been sick," he said and begged Mr. President to repose...
Seemingly the Minister's words and his fine, lionesque presence had their effect. The crowd quieted. After pulling the cord, M. Herriot departed amid an escort of police. But before the cavalcade was out of sight some 20 youths raggedly clad surrounded the statue, and one with a sledge hammer knocked off the nose and ears and smashed the face...
...difficulty of the examinations entrance are coming more and more to take courses which guarantee the passing of the requirements instead of attempting the discipline of soil preparation: When the student knows nothing of a language elementary training is desirable. But a course that has no end but the sight transition of some two hundred words virtually wastes a quarter of curricular year...