Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week like the London Illustrated News does. I think you've done not badly, in fact very well on the two occasions of the Supreme Court and the ZRS-4 Ring-Laying. But why not rely, as does the Illustrated News, on the camera? The day of the spot news sketcher has passed I'm sure...
...observer. Only the trained experimentalist can keep from selecting those features of the situation which prove his point and neglect the other pertinent but obscure factors. Edward J. O'Brien is not a trained social experimentalist. In "Dance of the Machines' 'he does succeed in focussing a brilliant spot-light upon many of the deadening influences of the machine upon the American mind, but he is far from successful in proving that the machine and its concimmitants give rise to all the deplorable aspects of the American scene...
...historically (see p. 45), assassin's guns were pointed in Belgium and Chile (see pp. 27, 32). President Hoover, rumbling through Indiana, felt his special train grind to a stop. A sedan had been placed on the tracks at a grade crossing. Secret Service operatives investigated on the spot. Two Negroes were arrested. They succeeded in convincing their captors that, ignorant of the President's proximity, they had plotted merely to collect damages from the railroad...
...early evening commuters' train, a neat, plump little man for whom a robins-egg Rolls-Royce stands at stately attention; for whom a footman leaps from the box; for whom the train will back up if necessary to set this important passenger down at the precise spot he wishes. Plump and neat, he trots between Rolls-Royce and train on trim little trotters...
...bright spot of the afternoon was the play of B. H. Ticknor '31. Suffering from a leg injury throughout the week preceding the game, he was inserted in the starting lineup at the last minute. The rangy center was in on every play and made the majority of the tackles for his team. Devens too turned in a good performance. The powerful Sophomore halfback was the only Crimson ball-carrier who could make any progress and it was only by dint of sheer strength that he plunged through the solid masses which confronted...