Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly, this single exposure toppled a whole house of frauds, painstakingly erected by M. Le Senateur Klotz. He was found to have purchased jewelry, clothing and a motor car on credit, then sold them for spot cash to meet gambling losses. All last week the music halls of Paris rang with mirth and "Klotz. . . . Klotz. . . . KLOTZ...
...WBBM of Chicago for nightly measurement of the intensity of radio reception with a view to ascertaining just what effect these electrical storms, which might be compared to cyclones or hurricanes on the earth, have on the strength of the radio waves. By comparing the graphs of the sun spots and the radio reception we were gratified to discover that, invariably, as the number and intensity of sunspots increased, radio reception grew worse, until, at the peak of the period of sun spot activity, called the Sunspot Maximum, the radio signals reached their weakest point. Likewise, when the spots...
...Chinese scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein and myself. When I reached Peking, I gave notice to the Chinese authorities of what I had left on the spot. A mission was sent and brought of Peking the rest of the manuscripts; a list of these was then published and I have been glad to see that, in spite of the haste with which I had proceeded, there was only one important text, a Manichaean treatise in Chinese, which...
Similar "meditation chapels" will be installed as soon as practicable in all other hotels operated by the corporation. Said Mi. Bowman: "The presence of one spot in the hotel, dissociated from the wordly things of life and dedicated to the God we profess to serve, is now recognized as a spiritual necessity...
...were four chipped, broken appendages. These, the paleontologists decided, had been paddles. They noted with delight that the creature had had three eyes, the third in the middle of its small, narrow head. They classified it as a plesiosaurus,* a marine reptile which perished in the waters covering the spot perhaps 100 or 200 million years...