Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train pokes its headlight around the curve and eyes the station platform for a moment. Slowly, deliberately, it chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard, smooth body into the train shed like a tired athlete sliding into bed between the sheets. It sight placidly once or twice, then relaxes. Vag stands beside the engine, his pipe glowing like a miniature firebox...
...present arrangements must be definitely widened, he said, and although he felt that the ultimate solution was a House Plan on the scale now functioning in the College, the Dean saw no immediate funds in sight to begin such a project...
...half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance as they braided a dun cotton cover on wire, a spark tester ring a buzzer when it found flaws in insulation, pencil- size copper wire drawn through a diamond slot to hair thickness at 120 m.p.h. Most interesting sight to reporters: Far from being distracted, proud workers spruced up more than usual, speeded production, decreased waste...
...Democratic Candidate Thomas Gallagher (campaigning for $50 pensions for Minnesotans over 60) and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt. The President failed to accommodate Elmer Benson, a vociferous New Dealer, by scratching the Democratic slate in favor of Farmer-Labor as he did in 1936. With no similar New Deal deal in sight last week, Twin Cities betting odds, hitherto favoring the well-oiled Benson machine 10-to-9, dropped to even money...
...specific nerve poison which makes an excellent painkiller when diluted; the other is an enzyme which causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated for severe snake bite complained of darkening of sight or even temporary blindness. Patients who were less severely bitten and who had suffered from circulatory or muscular disturbances in their eyes reported that their vision was greatly improved. Professor Alvaro has not yet been successful in isolating the specific eye principle, has used only small injections of diluted complete venom...