Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling orange, lemon, grapefruit trees, no water. Paradise...
Both banks of the Charles River bristle with new construction. Work has begun upon McKiniock Hall, the new Freshman dormitory, and across the River the Business School group is spreading and rearing itself over everything in sight. Opposite the north-east corner of the Yard the New Art Museum is also under construction...
...founded the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and has been 13 times its President. Her hearing and sight are impaired, and she is still a Grande Dame, full of poise, interest, force...
Last week Importance bustled along the quays and streets of Geneva, Switzerland (see LEAGUE OF NATIONS Page 11). The great the ex-great, the near-great crowded its hundred hotels. Gibble-gabble yielded place to political economy. Sight-seeing became people-seeing. The world was micrographed. On Sunday morning Importance climbed a narrow road up the steep central hill toward church. It went to hear the League of Nations sermon preached by an American, whom a famed Jew, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, had described as "Fosdick?the least hated and best loved heretic that ever lived." That a heretic should...
...landing, had floated buoyantly. On the first morning the men exchanged Navy ribaldries while they waited for a rescue which was sure to take place within a few hours. After four days their emergency rations of beans, hardtack, dried bread, chocolate, were exhausted. A merchant steamer hove into sight, insubstantial as a silhouette cut out of blue paper. The PN9 sent up furious signals. The ship dwindled to a smoke, vanished. The airplane's radio operator picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously agreed that...