Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found, however, that this place would not be suitable for erection of the building. At the spot which had been chosen, it was discovered that there was a bed of gravel about 25 feet deep, making it impractical to build a large structure upon...
...from the Rig-Veda Holst Love Songs Brahms Seat thyself, my dearest heart, not so close to me! A tremor's in the branches. Nightingale, thy sweetest song sounds when night is darkling. From you hills the torrent speeds, and the rain ne'er ceases. Secret nook in shady spot mong the waving grasses Drake's Drum Coleridge-Tayler The Glee Club Symphonic Poem, "Danse Macabre" Saint-Saens Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia March, "Veritas" Densmore The Orchestra
Tomorrow the senior singles, which with the Carroll Cup Race on Saturday, is the high spot of the regatta, will be rowed...
...north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked in her Spitzbergen shed ready to nose forth and explore earth's last big "blind spot" from Spitzbergen clear over to Alaska. The Norwegian Roald Amundsen, the Italian Colonel Nobile and the American Lincoln Ellsworth, biding their hour for this trip, denied that there was any competitive spirit between themselves and the two parties of heavier-than-air flyers. Theirs seemed the best chance of completing...
...gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless days are nights...