Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another even bloodier corpse I feel you have definitely joined the brotherhood for which you profess such smug scorn. I realize this is a waste of typewriter ink and time, but hope that my protest will be one of many. Few people enjoy and none needs the sight of photographed corpses. It is revolting, and cheap, and I would like to think that the person responsible for these two pictures among your high-class collection had been, or would be, called down. . . . BEATRICE U. FALAMON...
...Pulitzer Prize for topnotch foreign correspondence (see p. 59). Excerpts: "It has been said that there were 2,000,000 there. There may well have been more. No calculation is possible. Did anybody at home ever see 2,000,000 people gathered in one place? It is a stupendous sight. Imagine a great oblong field almost as large as Central Park in New York, but perfectly flat and treeless except for one lone oak. "At the upper end. in three groups of three each were 150 ft. flat frames of bunting ingeniously perforated against the wind force-the national flag...
Fresh-water anglers find exciting and beautiful the sight of a 12-in. trout leaping clear of a mountain stream. That seems tame to Novelist-Fisherman Zane Grey. He has seen monsters long and heavy and fierce as tigers hurtle themselves 30 ft. above the deep sea. In the current Natural History magazine, out last week, he told about them in the first account ever published of a shark that leaps when hooked...
...exhibition of African and Oceanic Art which the Fogg Museum presents through the cooperation of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, brings an artistic experience far deeper than the mere sight of the exotic by-products of savagery. It presents a manifestation of art which can materially richen our appreciation of all forms of art and our understanding of the varieties of human adaptation to the physical and spiritual problems of existence...
...defendants when he asked for a trial without jury. For if there is one tradition that might well go by the board it is America's insistence on a jury trial. Juries have been hailed throughout the ages as the guardians of justice but people have lost sight of the neat little tricks that Father Time is only too glad to play. Since the time when the jury was created to give the defendant a break Father Time's sickle has done a lot of work. And one of the changes that has come about--improved methods of communication...