Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked" the course of the bombers with astounding accuracy. Indeed, Army airmen were shaken by the knowledge that even at great heights, their craft...
...after day in Vienna last week, Theodor Cardinal Innitzer stayed indoors. Hollow-eyed, bewildered, unhappy, warned by police not to stir outside lest the sight of him "provoke" angry Viennese, he secluded himself in his archiepiscopal palace near St. Stephen's Cathedral...
...familiar sight to generations of students, Max Keezer's second-hand shop on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Plympton street is now no more. After 37 years of continuos occupancy near Harvard Square Keezer has been forced by high rents and unprosporous times to move his emporium about three blocks down the avenue towards Central Square on the other side of the (trolley) tracks...
...expect business to be a darn sight better here than it was down there," Keezer said in an interview, explaining that people did not like to be seen buying used clothing, which is his principal stock in trade...
...human cornea and the rabbit cornea is that the latter is larger and deeper. If this operation proves successful I will perform a second operation on Hoffman's right eye, using the rabbit cornea as a base, and over this graft a human cornea. Whether or not his sight will again be normal, or near normal, is problematical...