Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the focus of the study is the problem of Harvard College, the Committee never lost sight of the fact that college education at Harvard is an integral part of college education in the United States, and this in turn is an integral part of American education from the kindergarten to the Ph.D. and the professional colleges. It would have been impossible to cover this vast field comprehensively. But the evidence of the text shows that its authors possessed collectively so wide a range of knowledge that they have been able to dip into the vast reservoir of educational experience...
...Committee ever lose sight of the fact that all present day education lives in the context of ages of education. Still more important is their pervasive understanding of the dynamics of social and economic life and the constant pressure upon education to adapt itself to social economic changes that in the aggregate compose a revolution...
...Marx would have grumbled in his beard at the sight; but Engels, a bit of a fop himself, would have loved it.) Churchill, who had seen and envied Stalin's fawn outfit at Yalta, remembered that as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports he also was entitled to wear a fawn-colored uniform...
...down their island, Britons laughed and sang to celebrate a sight they had not seen in six long years. Thousands strolled in the bright streets, arm in arm, and singing. Auto parties cruised about to take in the sight. To six-year-old children, who had never seen the sight at all, the lights were like the illumination of a vast Christmas tree...
...elastic: the U.S. will be dangerously short of natural rubber by year's end, will have only 66,000 tons on hand. Before A-card civilians get their tires, the U.S. will have to find 75,000 more tons of natural rubber than are now in sight...