Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steam crane, under the guidance of the community's civil engineer, Brother Hugh. One day a cable on the crane tore loose, struck Devro in the eye. The monks treated him in their infirmary, then sent him to a Providence hospital. He lost the sight of his eye, returned to the monastery to do lighter tasks, soon resumed an old habit, heavy drinking. One day, after Devro had been on an exceptionally wild carouse, the Cistercians refused him readmittance. He ended up, insane, in a State hospital, but that was not the last the monks heard of William Devro...
...cheaper gold prices might be useful in negotiating trade and money pacts with Britain, the Empire being by all odds the world's biggest gold producer.* Even if the Administration did not loose the gold rumor as a trial balloon, it certainly did not shoot it down on sight...
...fact at first sight enthusiasm, fire, or whatever they call the ingredients vital to successful participation in this modern Armageddon, seems to be all there is to the game. But that's not so, there's a lot of science that goes along with the readiness to battle. And that can be proved by the team's Southern vacation trip...
...trip will be possible after April 28, when Pan American Airways begins flying passengers between Manila and Hong Kong (TIME, April 5). It can be made in 19 days. But United's round-the-world-trip allows 28, with sight-seeing along the way. Passengers will fly from Newark to San Francisco by United, to Hong Kong by Pan American, to Athens by Britain's Imperial Airways, to Milan by Italy's Ala Littoria and Avio Linee Italiane, to Frankfurt by Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.), to Lakehurst, N. J. on the Hindenburg, back to Newark...
...Hornell. N. Y., Negro Chef Louis Sight asked Patrolman C. Kenneth Conley to let him look at his blackjack. Chef Sight snapped it inquisitively, knocked himself...