Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow afternoon the swordsmen will meet Cornell, and then go on to a half-dozen more meets. The Cornell game will introduce the "electric epee," which automatically records touches with a flashing light and buzzor. Peroy said yesterday that the wired-up fencers are "quite a sight...
...British ships blocked the path of the Haim Arlosoroff as it came into sight of the Promised Land. When British troops came on board, Abraham split off a three-foot length of lifeboat oar and fought back with the others. The British subdued the immigrants with tear gas and water from firehoses, deported them to Cyprus...
...Dodds, still the country's top miler, worked out at Briggs Cage yesterday either for exercise, recreation, or perhaps to show Crimson trackmen how it's done. Dodds wasn't just on a sight-seeing tour. He precedes his Wheaton College (Illinois) track team, which he is entering in the annual B.A.A. Games Saturday. Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not particularly awed by Dodds's performance. He noted that the "flying parson" was "out of condition and quite a bit below his usual time...
...confesses that he feels an odd compulsion to be constantly entertaining in Porter's company: "Suddenly, when he's had enough, you find him staring at you with a kind of loathing and, before you know it, he's not just out of sight, he's out of the room and out of the hotel." London's Producer Charles B. Cochran, who put on a couple of Porter shows, at first was hurt and bewildered by the way Porter would listen to his conversation for a while, and then, without preamble, suddenly...
...three years, pro football's civil war had raged hot & heavy. Last week, seeing victory in sight, the bosses of the old and established National Football League met in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel and ordered up drinks. They waited calmly for the young and struggling All-America