Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippines will be decisive. . . . The Dutch East Indies . . . Borneo, Malaya and Burma will be severed from Japan proper. . . . To the north, either flank will be vulnerable and can be rolled up at will." Two months ago a communiqué claimed: "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight...
...long it was never left in a bomber, was always moved under armed guard. Last week, a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan charged that Carl L. Norden Inc. (Inventor Norden is no longer associated with the company) took even greater precautions to protect its monopoly on manufacture of the sight. Result: production by other companies of the badly needed sight was blocked. The jury indicted the company, President Theodore H. Barth and Vice-President Ward B. Marvelle, along with Commander John D. Corrigan, U.S.N.R., Robert H. Wells and Corrigan, Osburne & Wells,* their industrial-engineering firm...
...chemist he sees little to worry about. Said he: "What if we do use up all our petroleum? In five or ten years, with the technological advances that have been made and are in sight, we can make all the gasoline we want from coal, and sell it for only 5? more a gallon...
Last week came what looked like the biggest strike yet. Out in the sweeping range lands west of Calgary, within sight of the Rockies, a Shell Oil Co. test drill ing crew ran into a terrific gas concentration (a sign...
...happiness was compounded of simple pleasures, the sight of the roads through the magnificent country, the cheerful little taverns, the abundance of good plain food, the clean fresh rivers where he bathed morning & night. Morning after morning he awakened before dawn, breathing the pure air and listening to the sounds of the forest, the wind in the trees, the bells on the horses, sometimes the distant howling of wolves. Often he lay awake at night, seeing the moon and stars through the treetops and listening to the subdued talk of the frontiersmen...