Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search to discover these facts kept 48 planes busy for two days. The keen eyes of Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, president of the Curtiss Flying Service, were the first to spot the wreckage-an ugly hole in the dark green woods below...
...Dickie" Byrd sees the cover meant to be a "likeness"-he'll never get to the Antarctic-he'll die on the spot of chagrin for being pictured as a freshman in the university of TIME...
...next pilgrimage was to a certain spot on the streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
Pundits. Of real political pundits, few remain in U. S. journalism. They are men who write exclusively interpretative articles along broad party lines using the "spot" news of the Nominees' doings only as texts or pretexts...
Dutch detectives lay on their bellies in advantageous spots within the Amsterdam stadium. They were equipped with field glasses with which they surveyed the crowd. In this manner they were able to spot and seize some 2,000 cameras, thereby protecting the Olympic photographic monopoly which had been sold to one firm...