Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revolution in Russia left professors, scientific men and students destitute. While conditions for some of the physicians and other scientific men are gradually improving, thousands of students are still chronically undernourished and the plight of the professors remains desperate. Half of them have dropped out of sight since 1917. Surely it is to the interest of civilization that those who are left should survive. Many of them can do so if outside help is forthcoming...
...little detachment and contemplation to minimize the importance of these inventions while still recognizing their value. They are not necessary to life. They but facilitate extensive and intensive living. An automobile is a better cart; the radio and the moving pictures provide a keener hearing and a farther sight. They are valuable wherein they increase the sensations and hence broaden the conclusions of life, which has always been a thing of sensation and conclusion. And he who receives the sensations and reaches the conclusions of life is man; he still remains, among all his creatures the paramount figure...
...called basket maker region. On the Kayenta Plateau, near the famous Rainbow National Ridge, the expedition came upon a great cave. Working their way into the sandy cavern the University explorers entered the moulding dwelling and discovered two perfectly preserved dogs and two Indians, almost buried out of sight in the soft dry sand. It was evident that these Indians and their hunting dogs, since the day of their deaths, had lain in this dry sand and had undergone a natural process of mummification in which the dry atmosphere and the sand had combined for the result...
...received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense speed, through lenses in a revolving disk. Using ordinary methods to broadcast the words of people moving before the televisor lenses, it was found that sight and sound synchronized perfectly at the receiving...
...great alabaster sarcophagus was the most impressive object in sight. Upon it a gold canopy was laid with the gold tipped poles which held it erect in the funeral procession leaning against the sarcophagus...