Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played extensively about the Mediterranean. (A direct offspring is still played in Cuba and Mexico as Jaialai). None of the modern equipment was necessary. The players knocked a ball with their hands over a mound of earth, or some such obstacle, and settled their debts on the spot. It is barely possible that desperate matches are played on the Jarvis courts for sodas at the corner drug store, but nothing so huge as the 15 sous game is ever heard of. These systematic days, if they have left the old scoring system untouched, have at least spread the theory...
...guide his choice of books. A writer in "L'Oeuvre" recalls the newspaper story of the catch of a marvellous fish off the Pont Royal, and how by 8 o'clock of the day the paper appeared, two hundred would-be fishermen and six hundred spectators were on the spot to see the performance repeated. Similarly, he points out, is there a rush of people to the booksellers to obtain some obscure book, because the "Matin" or the "Temps" informs then that the Academic Goncourt has just "recognized...
...opening inning was the brightest spot for Colby and for a time it seemed as if they would score the first tally. Haines, the first hitter, drover out a clean single and was advanced to second on a walk. Later he got to third on a sacrifice hit, but air-tight fielding prevented him from scoring...
...Lloyd George's triumphant defense of his policies before the House of Commons yesterday, he laid his finger with characteristically severe touch on the outstanding sore spot in European politics-the reparations problem. A large part of all the post-war difficulties centers about the amount of the payments exacted from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles; and yet, as Lloyd George has said, the treaties did not cause the reparations. Their creation is due to the fact that there is something to repair. If the Versailles compact is altered, the burden is merely shifted from Germany to France without...
...Boston, Mr. E. P. Jones will give a lecture illustrated by lantern slides and motion pictures on "New England as a Playground-Winter and Summer." Mr. Jones, who is the official photographer for the Boston and Maine Railroad, will show the possibilities of New England as the vacation spot of America. Among others he will show motion pictures of Winter Carnivals at Gorham, N. H., winter sports at Dartmouth College as well as a new film of the White Mountains...