Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most spectacular operations developed in the last few years is the transplantation of fragile corneas from the eyes of dead men to the eyes of the living. When Evangelist Minister U. G. Harding of Portland, Ore. heard that such an operation might restore sight to his failing left eye, he sent a form letter to twelve condemned men in California's San Quentin prison, asking for a cornea. But not one could he get. Fortnight ago, Rev. Mr. Harding visited his 80-year-old friend, Mrs. Margaret Carr, who lay dying in Berkeley, Calif. Just before she closed...
...assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue in his cheek, blarney on his lips and the twinkle of the devil in his eyes." Said William D. O'Brien of the World-Telegram: ". . . A sight of Corrigan himself, with the lean peaked face alight with the puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk of the very land he startled." Said Edwin C. Hill of the Journal and American: "The Corrigan, as cocky a bantam as ever was, opened...
...Clipper could have dropped the oil to smooth the sea for an emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small...
...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...
Last week the 1,680 delegates and 12,000 visitors who arrived in Manhattan for the 76th N. E. A. convention and incidental sight-seeing were embarrassed by even bolder talk than usual. Before the meeting began, a teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names...