Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maps mean very little if anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars...
...been extended to us has been nothing less than remarkable. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge laughed and waved. Then the locomotive snout sneezed, the wheels began turning and the Coolidges, standing on the back platform of the Washington train, watched the Rapid City station turning into a tiny light spot in which molecular faces peered and electronic fingers wiggled the West's farewell. CT Reporters who traveled east- ward with the President remembering the trip west in June, were impressed with the improvement in his appearance since that time. Then his face had been grey with presidential pallor, etched...
...armed General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, through the pouring rain to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Lamp of Maintenance on the Tomb of the Soldat Inconnu was relighted, hav-ing been snuffed out by the Communists (TIME, Sept. 5), who spat upon and "otherwise defiled" the sacred spot...
Four ocean liners wheeled from their courses to comb the estimated spot where Old Glory radioed distress. It was a foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
...Woolaroc flew smoothly. In the night an oil brush slipped under the floor boards, and began a pounding vibration; a sound like pistons blowing. Goebel and his pilot, W. C. Davis, seized the water bottle and emergency rations and began peering below them for a soft spot in the sea. The brush vibrated itself into sight. They flew on. They saw land. They saw planes coming to meet them. An army flyer circled close and held up one finger. They knew they...