Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night a late passer-by marveled at the sight of Wigglesworth students studying on the frozen ground outside their entry...
...around 120,000 Ib. Complete welding of the sides removes all rivet heads and joints, makes them stronger and sleeker. Between cars are semi-articulated sections, and aprons between trucks conceal the car's mechanical equipment. More innovations: flush windows, entrance steps that roll out of sight, vestibule at one end only...
Apparently Mr. Chester's interest in extracurricular activities originated in 1930, when he suddenly invited two dozen leading foodmen to a get-acquainted dinner. And he found, as he had suspected, that few knew one another even by sight. From this group was drawn the Food Industries Advisory Board, which collaborated with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Food Code. All this activity put Mr. Chester in the spotlight; and in 1935 Mr. Chester got a telephone call from the N.A.M. president, asking him to serve as an N.A.M. director. Some of his General Foods directors had personal doubts...
...wherever he may find them. Among the Icelanders he finds considerable good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing to be loyal...
...family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made her his mistress on sight...