Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph C. Whitnack '38, rowing bow for the Bunnies, caught a terrific crab up toward Watertown and went clean over backwards into the dirty waters. Two passing crews rested on their oars to enjoy the sight...
...variety of piers and warehouses, the steel and concrete state pier, used by fishermen and merchants, the black and sooty landings, piled high, for coaling, the brown and weather beaten stages where sailing ships once docked to discharge their cargo of cotton and whale oil. Somehow this sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love. Perhaps Herman Manville...
...while still wet. The artists engaged in this project were far advanced in technique. They understood well the value of gold in their backgrounds for an effect of space filled with light, and they learned to incline all the cubes slightly forward to meet directly the line of sight from below, thus gaining the utmost in clearness and brilliance...
...said they believed there had never been such a submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...
Elsewhere in the same opera, when one of the female characters faints at the sight of her sword-spitted father, a much-used English translation staggers out with...