Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have returned gentlemen, from the blackest spot on the continent of America. In that prison colony just sufficient food is served to keep the men strong enough to work tinder the tropical...
...remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan staff. Secretary Mellon sent him to Berlin as a Customs Agent to spot smugglers, to prepare highly complex valuation lists. In 1924 he was back in the U. S. serving as Secretary Mellon's personal representative before the Senate Finance Committee during the framing of the tax reduction bill of that year. He returned to Berlin, journeyed to Poland with the Kemmerer...
...handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
...this week's Miscellany (TIME, June 24) you recount the incident of a "snipper'' in Boston. You were so prompt and authoritative in identifying the recent case of transvestism that I wondered why you failed to spot this case of a snipper who did not know why he snipped girls' hair off, as body-fetichism. I was long a victim of this peculiar aberration, and only beat it when I identified it, as I did by chance when a copy of Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months...
...receiving cell registered. The yellow-green-sensitized waves go to an argon lamp which glows through a green filter. The greenish-blue-sensitized waves affect another argon lamp with, in this case, a blue filter. Mirrors focus the fluctuating glows of all three receiving lamps on a single spot and as that spot rapidly weaves across a peephole, an observer perceives a scene in all its moving naturalness...