Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place, was listening to this broadcast, which she at first took to be a hoax. She set out for Bucharest with her 16-year-old son. On arrival, she was told that her husband was dead with five bullets through his body and one through an eye.* At the sight of his body she fainted, the boy suffered nervous collapse...
Radio Luxembourg, whose transmitter in the little grand duchy is within sight of the German border, subsided at the outbreak of the war, has not been heard since. Radio Normandie, like all other French stations, has been put under military supervision, now devotes most of its time to propaganda, none to merchandising. To supply both stations with sponsors and commercial material, U. S. agencies like J. Walter Thompson, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and Erwin, Wasey have for the last several years been doing brisk London businesses...
Last week observers had difficulty recognizing the Queen Mary, though Britain's big luxury liner lay in plain sight next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy...
...second week, and that was all hundreds of U. S. businessmen wanted to know. They began buying everything in sight, lest belligerent Europe or the U. S. Army & Navy beat them to it. Business' race-track class blindly bought stocks; its carriage trade bought durable goods. Some of the carriage trade's most notable shopping...
Over whelming superiority in singles encounters spelled victory for the Harvard-Yale not forces as they defeated the Oxford-Cambridge tennis squad 12 to 6 in a three day series on August 5, 6, and 7. The Harvard-Yale netmen copped sight of the 11 individual matches and had a 4 to 3 edge in the doubles...