Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discouragement, delay, the difficulties of learning English, a sea voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half...
...here & there in the mass of anonymous writing, individual passages stick in the memory: the description of industrial Lawrence, Mass., of the slums of Washington, D. C. that lie within sight of the Capitol; the list of Whitmanesque place names-Corncake Inlet, Money Island, Frying Pan Shoals-in The Intercoastal Waterway; the account of Fort Fisher, in the same volume, where the sea, nibbling away at the old Confederate breastworks, occasionally washes up the skeleton of a soldier...
...Vicki Baum insists that she has jumped on no Bali band wagon. As long ago as 1916, her foreword says, photographs of the island so fascinated her that they became her favorite smelling salts against "war, revolution, inflation. , . . ." Nineteen years later a sight of the real thing outdid her dreams. And then an old Dutch colonizer died and left her a trunkful of manuscripts, among them an "interminable" novel built around the final conquest of Bali by the Dutch in 1904-06. Her long novel is "a free paraphrase" of this lengthy legacy...
...neutral corner, but at the count of "One," Thomas was up after him. Schmeling slugged him again, and again he arose at "One." Four more times he went down under Max Schmeling's famed "Sunday punch," and each time rose ready to fight. The crowd, sickened by the sight, screamed "Stop it, stop it." Referee Donovan stepped between the two and beckoned Schmeling to a neutral corner...
...influence of Christianity in the future, he concluded, "The effect will be there, quite out of sight, in the deepest region of human consciousness...