Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosopher, Andy (Mr. Rogers) is finally forced to accede to his wife's demands and retire from his beloved drugstore in order to follow the life of culture and pleasure which his socially minded spouse has mapped out for him. On a golf course, Mr. Rogers is truly a sight to behold in his plus fours and outspoken golf hose. The round of gaieties only increases Andy's yen to get back to his drug store and the back-room games of pinochle with the town "doc" and when his wife drags him off to the New Orleans Mardi Gras...
...guns were the invention of General Harry G. Bishop, former Chief of Field Artillery, and consist of four pieces mounted on an iron base. Each gun has a regulation panoramic sight and worm gear arrangements for elevation and angle of site...
...object of the Department of Military Science and Tactics to give ROTC students practice with this set of guns, in order that they may become acquainted with the use of the panoramic sight and gun squad work under almost actual conditions. While the pieces have a wide range of dispersion, due to the cylindrical contour of the projectile, it is nevertheless possible to hit a "house" three inches high at a distance of 75 yards...
...most recent attempt to align Harvard University with the progressive tendencies of college administration, the creation of the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while encouraging at first sight, proves on inspection to be but a snare and a delusion...
...with technical science yielding the spotlight to the science of concerted competition; and, bigger than all the others, Low Cost Housing was a goal which hundreds of architectural, plumbing, electrical, refrigerating and elevator engineers, to say nothing of financiers and sociologists, continued last week to believe was almost in sight...