Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retail price ceiling was not in sight. Wholesale prices (including farm products) pushed up for the fourth successive week. The Agriculture Department took back a previous prediction that food prices might ease off toward the end of the year. Some basics were on the rise; during the week the average price of metal and metal products lifted 4%. Cement companies advanced prices. Diesel locomotives would cost 6% more. Chrysler Corp. added an average of $87 to the price of its passenger cars (thus leaving Ford and Studebaker as the only major car manufacturers who have held the price line since...
...Enjoy the Papacy." On first sight, Florence does not seem to have changed much. Tourists buzz over Martinis at Leland's* and shiver in dutiful awe before the graves of Machiavelli and Galileo. Business is good and the city is well fed. But there are many different Florences. There is the Florence of only yesterday-of the anglicized local aristocracy which used to go fox hunting without foxes, mounted in pursuit of a butler who panted across the pine-plumed hillsides strewing a trail of paper scraps. That Florence is certainly gone...
Evasive Action. Near Centerville, Va., seven days after a member of a road gang stepped on a hornets' nest and the whole gang scattered for cover, cops were still looking for one who scattered out of sight...
...Oscar Wilde's novel, stared arrestingly from under a strong spotlight. To keep calloused fingers off moldering Dorian, he was surrounded by a low grey fence. Blurted one housewife, after minutes of careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused farmer, "looks just like a dried up crab apple under my tree back home." Said another: "The funniest thing I ever...
Stillman infirmary, which reported no cases of heat prostration, and a sight of the Charles River bank yesterday afternoon, showed that the College was instinctively responding to the scientific dicta of Emmons...