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Word: spot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing, of course, can be done without the consent of the Eliot family. But sooner or later the proposal will gain headway to establish either an Eliot Museum or to dedicate some spot or structure to the great President's memory. The house in which he lived for so many years in Cambridge is not, like the Longfellow house, one of the architectural landmarks of the city. It lacks the charm of setting of the pre-Revolutionary houses along Brattle Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial to Eliot | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...American Tragedy?Skips from high spot to high spot of Theodore Dreiser's novel wherein salvation army religion fails a boy in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...reputed third oldest city in the U. S.** Negroes lolled in the park and pointed to a little hillock. "Are yoh a good niggah, Sam?" asked one. "I sure am. What make yoh ask silly questions, boy?" said Sam. "Den, yoh goin' to have a statue on dat spot over dere." And at the base of that statue will be the inscription: The Good Darky of Louisiana. Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan, 1927. Mr. Bryan, cotton planter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Statue | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...tigermonks." Natural scientists suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Winged Cat | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...long and varied history. An elevated site about 25 miles east of Lima was temporarily chosen in 1889, principally as a point of observation from which to continue the work in photometry and spectroscopic survey begun in the Northern Hemisphere at the University. But Mount Harvard, as this spot was named, proved almost impossible for observations during the rainy season from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice. for although a station at Pampa Central...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MOVES TO SOUTH AFRICA | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

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