Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation," said he, "is similar to the point of an anecdote told me recently by an American friend. It seems that one of your schoolmasters had asked a lad to form a sentence using the word 'diadem.' The pupil replied, 'People who drink bootleg diadem sight quicker than those who don't. . . .' You catch my meaning, I am sure...
Paraphrasers suggested that Sir Austen meant, "A League which used raw, un-mellowed, strong-arm methods and thus antagonized its Member States would diadem sight quicker than will the present milk-and-water League...
...Call it searing the conscience, call it dimming the moral sight, call it what you will, the process, in greater or less degree, is not confined to fiction. Men have started in life with good intentions and ended reprobates. When the catastrophy comes in such cases. When, for example; an embezzlement is discovered, a long series of gradually increasing malversations appear, beginning with a self-pretence of borrowing money to be replaced, growing by degrees more reckless and ending in desperation. All along there is a series also of excuses causing the edge of the conscience to become gradually dulled...
...usual standard by which the worth of a library is determined is that of number of volumes, and in comparing mere numbers it is often lost sight of that size is but one of a library's requirements. No less important is the proper proportioning of the collection and the inclusion of old and rare works thereby made accessible to scholars. Widener Library has held for some years the title of the foremost college library and the fifth greatest in the world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years...
Engaged. Paul Oscanyan, radio purveyor of news from Greenland; to Helen Sunder, only woman wireless operator in Denmark; by radio, sight unseen...