Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold tiles of darkness, while her sight...
...trim sloop and swung rapidly around the jetty on Eastern Point, laying a course for the whistling buoy off Thatcher Island on the tip of Cape Ann. Soon wisps of fog rolled in on the heels of a fresh southerly breeze, and he checked his position before losing all sight of the surrounding waters. Miraculously the fog blew away in a few minutes, and he saw the twin towers of lighthouses that stand on Thatcher Island, and the lovely shoreline shining in the afternoon sun. He thought of the buoys, charts, and lights, the aids to navigation, that make...
...Taylor acts convincingly as the rich young wastrel who, after causing one death through his wilfullness, falls in with the Douglas philosophy and, reforming, saves a second life which he might also have wasted through the same wilfullness. More specifically, he becomes the famous eye doctor who restores the sight of female interest and chief stooge Irene Dunne when everyone had said it was impossible...
...Nanking, China. I have just returned from a visit to the front in the Shanghai area. The sight of thousands of wounded soldiers patiently waiting at every first-aid station for transportation to hospitals in the rear wrings my heart, despite their magnificent bravery and resignation to pain...
That few of the undergraduates knew Mr. Perkins by sight is a tribute to his modesty and to the unobtrusive efficiency of the Corporation, for officers of the University testify that his greatest interest as Fellow lay in the lot of the students. He was the constant member of a changing Corporation which has in the past quarter century enormously built up the endowment of Harvard and has increased her name and friends. Truly the University will do well so long as she can attract men of the type of Mr. Perkins, and alike for his friendship...