Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Court tennis is still played with a lopsided racquet, a low net, a court with a sloping roof. Each point is played twice. The spot where a player loses a point is marked and then the other player tries to beat this mark. On the net line sit individuals chanting in a monotonous voice. "Four-better than three-worse than three. . . ." The ball, harder and almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes...
...rhapsodized the aged but active Atlanta Constitution last week, not in a book review but right spang on the editorial page. The "spot" news was that the Waverly Press, Inc. (Baltimore) had published a re-edition of The Earth Upsets by Chase Salmon Osborn, LL.D.-a geology book for laymen...
...First, I deny that any man can predict the time or place of the next earthquake in California. . . . Southern California is but a small spot along the great...
...Triangular meet. In the sensational clipping of record after record which took place that Saturday night in Mechanics Hall, so much excitement was provided by the Crimson stars that the earthquake tremors which had New England dangerously rocking, passed by unnoticed in the enthusiasm. It was a high spot of Crimson track, and men like R. G. Allen '26, F. P. Kane '26, L. L. Robb '25, C. G. T. Lundell '27, K. N. Rogers '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, W. I. Tibbetts '26, and A. H. Miller '27 composed a remarkable galaxy...
Planning to fly straight from Panama to Bogota, Colombia, the flyer snatched an extra stop. Over the reputed Caribbean burial spot of an earlier, famed wanderer, Sir Francis Drake, he sought the north coast of South America. The little walled town of Cartagena, one of the oldest in the new world, gave him greeting to his third continent...