Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Months of research, consultations with eye witnesses, ordering and comparing of records went into making the volume. It is designed to guide the most meticulous motor tourist from spot to spot along all the fronts where U. S. troops went into action. The- exploits and reverses of each different division are mapped in separate colors. Curt accompanying narratives enable the tourist to follow, or fight over again in memory, the entire Argonne campaign, for example- Montfaucon, Vauquois, Grand Pre, Sommerance, Romagne, Cunel, Nantilleis, Brieulles sur Bar, etc., etc., with 500 pictures selected from the 100,000 on file in Washington...
Some 400 cases of U. S. oranges were sent to a cool spot to wait for the day of the parade, when they will be handed out along the line of march to French children...
...miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that...
...prospective and proved pondered this story from Captain Pitman: A ranger fired one .256-calibre bullet into an elephant standing in a clearing on a slope. Down fell the elephant dead, and rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good story, the ranger hurried to the spot. There he found, not one dead elephant, but four dead elephants. Explanation: the shot elephant had killed two others on its downhill roll. The fourth had chosen that spot to die of bullets, evidently a month before...
Tactful Speeches. Since Quebec was French territory from 1632 to 1759, the spot on which the British Princes and Premier landed last week has been "The King's Quay" since the days of His Most Catholic Majesty, Louis XIV, King of France...