Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms with Raphael is the beginning, but surely not the end of a liberal education in the arts...
...social loyalty and responsibility, of the artist's union with his fellow men in origin and destiny, seems to be replacing the romantic concept of nature which for so many years gave to artists and to many others a unifying approach to art . . . an end seems to be in sight to the kind of detachment which removed the artist from common experience, and which at its worst gave rise to an art merely for the museum, a rarified preciousness." If the layman is to meet the artist half way, we must include among the scholars, the research experts, the technicians...
...philosopher from the moon, most fantastic sight in the U. S. last week would have been that of thousands of cultivators black and white trudging patiently out into the fields to plant another cotton crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned...
...Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread, three cabbages, many a goody...
...handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up his father's bricklaying trowel, has supported his family ever since. In his off-hours he read everything in sight, especially Russian novels...