Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police were hitting at everything in sight, charging in a mad swirl under the inadequate light of the moon and the pallid electric lamps. Groans and shouts rang in my ears. I managed to hide in a side street. Demonstrators wrenched up the iron rails around the tree where I had been standing and used them as swords or clubs; others managed to tear up the paving stones from the curb, and hurled them at the police, often missing and striking their own comrades...
...Humanité's solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...
...raise money for some obscure and irrelevant fund, the girls of Simmons College last week auctioned off--sight unseen--dates with a Tufts man, an M.I.T. man for seven dollars, and the Harvard man--o woo of woes--sold for six dollars and fifty cents. The Simmons girls, showing feminine cunning much beyond their years, blamed the results on material circumstances. They said that they felt awkward about bidding for dates and when the Harvard man came up first, quite by chance, they were not very enthusiastic. Later on, as the bidding fever spread, prices shot skyhigh...
...move is an experiment both for the HAA and for Brooks House. PBH has organized the project with good-will and practicality, while the athletic directors have shown sufficiently that, with a bleak wooden expanse in sight every Saturday afternoon, they are willing to give a few free seats for children...
...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...