Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator McMaster, South Dakota Republican, unexpectedly chimed in to demand just what assurance of action on farm relief the "progressives" had obtained. He discomfited his Republican brethren with a resolution to bring up revision of the industrial tariff, that being the vulnerable spot of farm-relief antagonists. Senator Brookhart tousled himself afresh in a harangue to the effect that he was proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator...
...sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near the southern (Pacific) end of the strip of territory which alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia...
...Captain Frederick A. Giles, if he could have got his freighter. But there was none in sight and he must needs fly all the way to the California coast whence he started. At least so say the weather experts, who claim that the sun was shining calmly in the spot five hundred miles from shore where he claims that a tempest blew away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill...
...Victorian age, the number of female figures in the Yard increased so much that this custom became impractical.. It wanted for several years; and then came Rinehart to replace it altogether. Imagine the situation today had the tradition been maintained; the Yard would be a spot of incessant uproar day and night, and overemphasis on either athletics or studies would certainly be averted...
...they are in main accurate and devoid of exageration. Perhaps in some future age old tales will be told how Professor Kittredge personally horsewhipped every man who dared to have a cold, and how, on the President's daily walks, the scuffings of the Presidential dog marked the spot where the next College building was to rise. But no Harvard's motto will still be "Veritas...