Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, or at any rate important enough to warrant the strict attention of all civilized mankind, including both supporters and opponents of the League. To this ancient town every fall flock from all parts of the the globe statesmen, politicians who are not statesmen, journalists, authors, students, and sight-seers. As a spectacle alone this varied gathering is well worth looking at. But for anyone who is something more than a gaping tourist Geneva in September is far more than just another great sight. It offers a broad and fascinating experience to all who possess any interest in international affairs...
...truth found upon every campus: he is a parasite to the attainment of ideal educational conditions. Yet, as Miss Brooks says, the work must be done, and since this is so, it should be distributed over the whole student body in order to prevent any one student from losing sight of the real object of his being at college. If he does this, he hurts the university morale. On the other hand he may be helping himself, for by serving in these ways, he may develop himself better than he would did he become an ideal student...
Months ago, vague rumors of bickerings were heard, but not until last week was it reported that the brothers had quarreled. Wild rumors circulated in Berlin that a definite disruption of the complex Stinnes estate was in sight, but the facts did not bear out the fears...
...machine, the telephone would never have come into being if the invention had not possessed, in addition to imagination, a firm, sure knowledge of the laws of mechanics, electricity and physics. In the present agitation for intellectual liberty, there is danger that the fundamentals of learning may be lost sight of. The Quadwrangler believes that colleges are not unmindful of this danger and are guarding against it. They will do well if they do not pay too much attention to pleas which will certainly result in unrest and may result in changes in educational methods which we will later regret...
...third place, the incident shows that Yale freshmen are very fond of examinations. At New Haven they celebrate beforehand. It must have been an inspiring sight, all those enthusiastic young faces glowing in the light of the bonfire in anticipation of the happy examination hours to come...