Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says the legend, came the Gaels to Ireland, long, long ago. Last week another set of persecuted wanderers was finding sanctuary by the Irish Sea. Some of them vaguely remembered luxurious homes in Vienna, Berlin or Warsaw. Some remembered more vividly the sight of parents being dragged off to gas chambers. All had been hauled wearily across warring Europe. When London's Central Jewish Refugee Committee rescued them at last in Prague, the 49 orphan children were like so many mute, shriveled old men & women...
...physical revolution which Einstein started is not yet in sight. Perhaps it will stop itself-suddenly-in mid-development under the impact of that equation, E = mc2, which inspired the nuclear physicists to turn small bits of matter into world-shaking energy...
...called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...
...Samborskimen were concerned, by the third Inning the game was out of sight. The Terriers tallied twice in the first frame, and after being blanked in the second, drove three more across in the third. Single scores in the fourth and sixth closed the gap slightly but a B.U. run in the sixth and a big four in the seventh definitely salted it away...
Admitting to Casa Rosada (Government House) newshawks that the reasons for higher prices were "more intricate than appears at first sight," Perón flatly promised that "if within 60 days the Government does not obtain the collaboration which it requests . . . it will be obliged to raise salaries up to 40% and freeze existing prices...