Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hasn't been a Yale victory since 1933, that 14-13 major catastrophe last November; and perhaps most important of all, Albie Booth's last minutes drop kick which smashed the undefeated record of Barry Wood's team in 1931. Oh yes, a Bulldog pelt is always a welcome sight in the Crimson trophy room, but one was never more eagerly awaited than that belonging to this year's litter of "Ducky" Pond's invincible blue pups...
...TIME, Oct. 18, in your discussion of ceramics, you quote Roman Pliny -"Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such a rendition assumes that Pliny wrote in the manner of a modern encyclopaedic general and columnist who is both ribald and biblical, and that the Latin word "certe" had assumed new meaning since the birth of Christ. . . . The Romans swore in a different way, invoking Hercules, Castor, or Pollux most frequently. . . . SYDNEY J. MEHLMAN...
TIME denies any ribald intention in translating Pliny's phrase as it did, holds that idiomatic sense is more sacred than a literal translation, and a damn sight less harmful...
Human Hairlessness. "If you were respectable anthropoid apes catching your first glimpse of a specimen of man, your modesty would be shocked by the spectacle of his obscene nakedness. Indeed, even to man himself it is a well-nigh insupportable sight, unless he be a savage devoid of culture, or a nudist devoid of sensibility...
...required return trip over the measured course, but Captain Eyston traveled faster than man has ever traveled on land before. He was clocked over the first leg of his course at 309.6 m.p.h. Said the 40-year-old English captain, who raises chickens as a hobby: "I just sight her along the marker line and she pretty much steers herself...