Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born a Canadian, and a bird lover since his tenth year, Albert Simmons at 44 has perfected a technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will recognize Photographer Simmons' teal, duck and goose...
President: We are stricken by no plague of locusts. . . . Nature still offers her bounty, and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply...
With increasing despair the Radical Government saw the White Army battle its way within sight of Madrid. To meet the impending crisis Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was appointed "Supreme Chief of the Military Forces of Spain" and Julio Alvarez del Vayo "General Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were...
...Copenhagen a sight in the main square made Dr. Parran pause with admiration, for "along with advertisements of department stores, model houses, parks and other attractions of the city was posted the list of names, places and hours of all venereal disease clinics." In Scandinavia Dr. Parran also found that practically every case of syphilis was traced to the individual from whom it was contracted. In the U. S. only New York State tries to make a systematic search for the original source of infection. With his $8,000,000 Social Security fund, Dr. Parran is trying to make other...
...surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss for $50,000). So accurate are the controls, so precise the instruments, that with the aid of another optical illusion it is possible on a flat map to trace from the apparent relief shown by the stereoscope...