Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally, the appearance of Mr. Harding's hat in the ring was the signal for the Democrats to put a disparaging interpretation upon it. The Democratic National Committee began at once to cast about for the weakest and most plausible spot through which to thrust an opening campaign wedge. They found it in the remarks of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, considered by political experts to be the spokesman of the Eastern Republicans, and certainly one of the three highest figures in the Republican party organization...
...fortune of Paul Kruger, one-time President of the Transvaal, has been exhumed, according to reports from Cape Town. A young man by the name of Pritchard says that he has located the spot where the treasure was buried in the Sable game reserve, North Transvaal. Mounted police have been despatched to the scene to keep law and order...
...always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted to it by the rotation of the earth...
...after 11 minutes and 55 seconds of manoeuvering in the second session when Reid followed up a rebound. Captain Bulkeley had carried the puck down through the Crimson defense for a hard shot at the cage, but it bounced back from Bigelow's protectors and Reid was on the spot to snap it into the net. The other two tallies came in quick succession in the last four minutes of play. The University had put all her men into a last attack in the hope of tying the score, so when Bulkeley got the puck deep in the Yale territory...
...final dash for the summit Mr. Mallory and two other succeeded in reaching a spot 1700 feet from the summit. There a solid wall of ice stretched upward to the peak. Footholds were cut in this, in a last desperate effort to complete the journey. However utter exhaustion compelled a hasty retreat...