Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crows see a good deal of native folk art in Japan, and sheer away from it on sight. G.I.s got a chance to inspect the same art at closer range last week when the farmers of the little village of Narita topped off a four-day summer festival with an exhibition of their best new scarecrows...
Wartime gas rationing almost shut down the business temporarily. But since the war, Mount Wilson has taken on new importance. Both television and FM depend on line-of-sight broadcasting, and Mount Wilson is the most accessible clear peak in Southern California. Childs has already sold 320 acres to broadcasting companies for $65,000, has also leased a choice plot to the Columbia Broadcasting System for $75 a month (CBS had to agree to give television demonstrations to tourists...
...hedge backwards"), G. D'Arcy ("Stilton") Cheesewright ("a bloke of furtive aspect"), and Lady Florence Craye ("one of those intellectual girls . . . who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove"). The plot is an intricate counterpoint of love-at-first-sight, financial skullduggery in shipping circles, and Berty's appearance at a ball, disguised as Sindbad the Sailor...
...word that has gone out from the lords of the Corporation and Business Office is that Harvard is going to have difficulty meeting operating expenses. In face of rising costs, House rents and food charges have been upped and still there is no ceiling in sight. Almost at the exact time that the University and the nation were sweating through the June inflation scare, the Treasurer of the University made public the gifts and endowments which were to give Harvard its annual infusion of new financial strength. But an analysis of these endowments raises the question of whether these gifts...
Scientists are working hard to find some light-weight shield to replace the masses of lead, concrete or water they use at present around their "bad-acting" apparatus. A composite shield may prove useful; but it too will be massive and costly. No "magic shield" is in sight...