Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became, by international courtesy, territory of the Cuban republic. But only momentarily; for Gerardo Machado, President of Cuba, moved expeditely from Havana to visit President Coolidge. A Cuban law prohibits the Cuban President from leaving Cuba. Therefore, President Machado, never without a Cuban flag in his pocket, annexed every spot of U. S. soil for the moment during which he passed over it or paused upon it. He could not be accused of leaving Cuba. He took Cuba with him. He even annexed for Cuba, temporarily, a spot in the temporary U. S. White House (No. 15 Dupont Circle...
...woods near Syracuse, N. Y., students of Cazenovia Seminary smoked in furtive privacy. Last week, startled, they learned that Student Theodore Kensicki, 17-year-old aspirant to the ministry, was about to "squeal" on them. Eight of the smokers lured Student Kensicki with soft words to a lonely spot. While he kicked, lunged, writhed, they tore off his clothes, scrubbed his skin raw and. bleeding with a wire brush. Into his sorry scratches they then rubbed iodine. They left Student Kensicki screaming with pain, minus five teeth. Soon they left the seminary, suspended by the president's order...
Donaghy starred at bat for Harvard with three hits out of three times at bat while Burn's diving catch of Campbell's liner over second base was the brightest spot in the afternoon's fielding...
...baseball nine adjourns its journalistic endeavors to open serious practice for Saturday's game with the editors of the Daily Princetonian on Soldiers Field. It has been decided that the practice will be secret but its location is as yet unsettled, due to the difficulty of discovering a handy spot where absolute secrecy and silence are inherent...
...Craig, was captured by bandits, last week, in Yunnan with the Rev. and Mrs. Morris Schlicter, their three-year-old daughter and small son, of Toronto, Canada. The bandits, enraged to discover their captives were almost without funds, shot and knifed Mr. Schlicter and his daughter on the spot, then vanished with their other captives into the remote interior...