Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Cottage Farm Bridge, down Commonwealth Ave., through the Sumner Tunnel, and the lights of the Cyclone heave in sight,--bright lights, climbing, falling, twisting. "I've been on that fool roller coaster three times in a row!" someone boasts...
Britain. Like the U. S., Britain puts her military trust in a small professional army that keeps out of sight, lives apart from the nation as a whole. Tommy Atkins still does great work for Britain in the colonies, but Tommy Atkins is seldom seen on the streets of London, Birmingham or Manchester. Heretofore Britain has always reckoned on her seapower to give the nation time to muster, drill and equip a force for Marlborough-Wellington offensive fighting on the Continent after war has been declared. The recent passage of a half-hearted conscription law points to a possible reorientation...
Last week the right man with the right backing might have had his pick of several big educational jobs. Smith College, Ohio State University and University of Colorado, among others, had arrived at the end of an academic year during which their presidents retired with no successor in sight. At Ohio State and Colorado the reasons for the regents' indecision were largely political. But when it came to picking a new president, none of these colleges or universities found it easy, because none knew exactly what kind of president it wanted...
...have trickled into the U. S. The book's author, so rumor ran, was a Japanese corporal serving in China, but the book was antiwar, its sales large* (500,000 copies in Japan). Last week U. S. readers could see for themselves "Corporal Ashihei Hino's" gun-sight ac count of the Japanese invasion of China...
...dogfights pilots could quickly identify friendly planes, would fire on none by mistake. After the War their use soon spread to all the world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms (see next two pages), in the battles...