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Word: spot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitting that those words spoken at the laying of the cornerstone of the Library should be quoted. "We may indulge the hope that as long as scholarship and learning are honored and the wisdom of the pas, is cherished, the endless generations of future scholars will seek this spot and recall with the same grateful spirit with which we recall the names of Harvard and of Gore, the name of the donor of the enduring building to be erected here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNIVERSARY | 4/15/1927 | See Source »

This result reveals a weak spot in a judicial system which as a whole is it worthy of confidence and pride. We dare not rest until this vital fault is corrected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL FLAWS ARE EVIDENT IN TRIALS OF SACCO-VANZETTI | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...where it would be exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much as a new lock in Panama, and that the Panama Canal could carry twice as much traffic. A new canal, they added, would only make one more vulnerable spot to fortify and protect in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Canals | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...excursioners assembled, waited shuffling and uncertain near the appointed spot on Monte Subasio for an entire day. Gabriele D'Annunzio, the willful, the perverse, simply did not appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet Forgets | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...FIND ZIEGFELD" said papers. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. who can spot "a woman of parts" for his shows as quickly as a jockey can spot a likely bit of horseflesh, was sought in vain last week by process servers. Producer Ziegfeld lately announced that his chorines in the future would be decently dressed. Now he seems to have found chorine-wrappings expensive; the Eaves Costume Co. claims he owes them some $30,000 for costumes for his last three shows. Justice Ford came to the aid of foot-weary process servers, said they could serve the papers by nailing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trivia | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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