Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week the German admiralty announced having touched a spot lower in the world than any spot recorded?a spot 34,416 feet below sea level. With line and sinker, the cruiser Emden had found it, in the so-called "Japanese Ditch," running from Japan down to the Philippine Islands. The greatest ocean depth previously known was 32,644 feet, off the east coasts of Japan...
...Those private friendships that have for years upon years made Boston a memorable and beloved spot" to Charles Dickens will be cemented in the centennial celebration of the "Pickwick Papers", the first book to bring him fame. This-celebration will be in the nature of a Dickens American Pilgrimage tomorrow the day that Mr. Pickwick opened his shutters of his rooms in Goswell street to the newly-radiant sun 100 years ago and speculated upon his adventures, and will include visits to the State House, where Governor Fuller will receive the "Commodore Coach" and its members, and Harvard, where President...
Soon after the signing of the Armistice the temporary wooden structure, too good to tear down, and yet not particularly beautifying to its surroundings, was partitioned, and one half remained as a cafeteria and the other housed the Bursar's office. The former Bursar's office building, occupying the spot on which Lehman Hall now stands, had burned down and the officers of the exchequer were officeless...
...spot seems so typically American to Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, as Chicago. So said the General at the Hotel La Salle last week, guest of the Military Intelligence and Reserve Officers associations. Stiff-jawed, military as a court-martial, Major General Summerall, warmly welcomed, rose, spoke crisp, West-Pointed sentences...
Although the Japanese fiscal panic (TIME, April 18) caused the Emperor to authorize all banks to close for three weeks (TIME, May 2), most Tokyo banks opened last week voluntarily, displaying huge piles of bank notes on their counters to convince depositors that all who wanted it could withdraw spot cash.* By this stratagem the public was apparently convinced that immediate disaster did not impend, and withdrawals grew lighter as the week progressed. Eventually re-depositing began and the panic seemed...