Word: sightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stopped at the Uvalde home of aging (79), still chipper John Nance Garner. "Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee. Harry Truman ate some of everything in sight, said it was the biggest breakfast he had had in 40 years. Nothing was said of politics, but everybody got the idea: Jack Garner, that most conservative Southerner, was for Harry Truman...
Pamela's parents, whose marital differences have fascinated Chicago newspaper readers almost as much as Pamela's peril, took the operation harder than the patient did. The sight of a routine blood transfusion blacked out father Fred Lamphere. Said he: "I saw them putting needles and blood into her, and I keeled right over in a faint...
Harvard's sage, grey Sumner H. Slichter, who had rightly warned of inflation dangers while others mistakenly worried about a recession, finally thought that the boom was tapering off, but he saw no bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
...sight-reading rehearsal next Tuesday evening at 7:15 p.m. in Sanders Theater will lead off the week's activities. This will be open to the public, and will be followed up by tryouts in the Music Building at 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday...
...program at Tuesday's sight reading rehearsal will include Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Haydn's "London" Symphony, Dvorak's Sinflonietta, Borodin's Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor, and a Suite by Bach...