Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make and fit them), are the first products of artificial limb research launched by the Government 21 months ago. A civilian committee, now under the National Research Council, has spent $500,000 on research, has $1,200,000 more to spend. But Model A is not yet in sight...
...office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen and then you look over what...
...derned sight better business...
...home in a car after a dinner party, had to be escorted home by a corps of bobbies with torches (British for flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...
...Manhattan's Memorial Hospital last week, a visitor dropped in on the patient in Room 941. They had met only once before, in 1944, but recognized each other on sight. The patient, a writer, had whimsically described his caller then as "a large and most distinguished looking figure, in beautifully tailored, soft white flannels." That time the visitor had not really been looking for him. This time, when he left, Death took Alfred Damon Runyon, 66, with...