Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scaling some of the highest peaks in the Alps. Because of his experience he was chosen to make a preliminary survey of the world's highest peak in 1921.It was largely due to his knowledge of high altitudes that the Mt. Everest expedition succeeded in reaching, last May, a spot 27,235 feet above sea level--the highest point ever trod by human beings...
...with the selection of ten books, so even with a collection of a million everyone cannot be satisfied. All the books which have ever been printed could never be assembled in a single spot even if a library could be built large enough to contain them. In the official report made by Professor Coolidge, Widener Library's collection is described as "better rounded out than almost any of the great European libraries," although it contains fewer rare books than many others, and only a limited number in many special fields. Its selection, however, is calculated to satisfy the varied wants...
There seems to be only one spot on the face of this sun, and that is the effect of auto-suggestion. Of course energetic New Yorkers can be reduced to a semi-comatose state only by a deliberate carefully planned hypnosis; but elsewhere "the semiconscious state with closed eyes" into which Dr. Gayer transports his hearers and which he insists is necessary for success has been reproduced by less strenuous methods. If he too went on a tour say of the colleges he probably could dispense with the orchestra. ("A little auto-suggestion and one can do anything.") At least...
...Meterological Institute issues a bulletin stating how the earth-shock coincided with the passage of a sun-spot over the central meridian of the sun. Various seismographic measurements tell the strength of the shock; and this constitutes almost the sum of our understanding of a particularly terrifying fact...
Meanwhile Lenin and Trotzky were looking at the same poster, their handiwork, in the dining room of the ex-little father, Nicholas. And Lenin had his feet on the table where Princess Olga once spilled her soup, and Trotzky was tapping with his knee the spot where the Czarevitch had once stuck a cud of Wrigleyitch...