Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Dr. Barsky could greet his distinguished guest, immigration officials hustled Mme. Curie out of sight. Four hours later reporters caught a glimpse of her, looking ruffled and harassed, as she was bundled into a car and whisked off into the night...
...Frankly, the theater would be a sight better off," declared Veteran Producer Gilbert Miller, "if there were some poverty around among authors, actors and agents. It flourished more luxuriantly when these characters were living in garrets...
...coherent account of religious activity in this country and throughout the world. ... At this moment throughout the state universities there is being established a system of religious education unparalleled in the history of progressive religion. . . . These currents, more important perhaps than farm blocs or youthful novelists, are lost sight of by the reader of the daily press...
What's news about traffic jams? Only that they are getting worse, that no remedy is in sight, and that millions of Americans are delayed and annoyed by them every day, without exactly realizing that the nuisance is, quite possibly, permanent. TIME'S Paul O'Neil wrote "The Last Traffic Jam" (Dec. 15, 1947) which, by obvious exaggeration, got over a point that was, in a way, news to nobody. The story's details were not fantasy. Researcher Marianna Albert rode in taxis for a whole day to get the kind of specifics that made...
This year neither team is any world-beater and the two lie together in the E.L.L. basement. But Yale still has Lavelli, and Lavelli has just about every scoring record in sight, and 21-points-a-game average...