Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special treat for neighborhood children who still thrill at the sight of a red cap and a white beard at Christmas times, PBH superintendent "Jock" Cockburn donned the gay apparel for 19 youngsters, who watched a magician while lapping up holiday refreshments...
...noble ideal that men would rather talk than shoot out their differences. It speaks highly of General Marshall that he was able to withstand as much disappointment and betrayal as he did and still keep on working for peace. When he left Shanghai with no agreement in sight it was almost a certainty that the withdrawal of the peace teams was in sight. The surprise is not that the Marines are coming home, but that they are coming home so soon after their chief became Secretary of State...
Energetic Fritzie Zivic, onetime world's welterweight champion who had once licked pneumonia, Henry Armstrong and everything else in sight, began to retire-by slow degrees. He had three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
Young Egypt. Last November, Dr. Walter Bryan Emery, British archeologist in the service of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, climbed a desert bluff at Sakkara within sight of the pyramids of Giza. Below lay the fertile checkerboard fields of the flat Nile valley. A few miles away peasants grazed their goats among the jumbled ruins of Memphis, first capital of Egypt...
...Winter finds the collective health of the entire University population at an almost all-time peak. Absences from classes because of illness have been practically non-existent; people who formerly carried their coughs into examinations and theaters seem temporarily to have dropped out of sight; in a year when University enrollment has doubled, the number of patients in Stillman stands at one-third of the normal figure. Data from hospitals throughout the Boston area testify that the notable absence of colds, pneumonia, and other respiratory ailments is not something peculiar to Harvard. While such a situation is indeed heartening...