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Word: spot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Galway Piper Gute Nacht Reaper's Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook in Shady Spot Then Round about the Starry Throne, from "Samson" Handed

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB APPEARS IN SANDERS CONCERT TONIGHT | 3/23/1926 | See Source »

Athenian pressmen stood open-mouthed in a little eager ring last week while a powerful, flashing-eyed old man performed the miracle of interesting them in The History of the Peloponnesian War (431 to 411 B. C.), composed by famed historian Thucydides upon the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Thucydides Re-Greeked | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...wish to re-adopt the old rule of returning the ball after an incomplete pass to the spot from which it was passed. The penalty was too great. The late rule of returning the ball to the line of scrimmage encouraged promiscuous passing. These were the facts considered by the Committee in adopting this new ruling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLONS CURTAIL USE OF FORWARDS | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...performer of the nautch, an Indian ballet-dance in which the dancers sway and vibrate their bodies without moving from the spot on which they stand. By developing certain muscles, especially those of the abdomen, they are able to produce seemingly impossible twitchings and convulsions, which are highly esteemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath. These men intend heading north and northwest from Point Barrow, exploring the "blind-spot," passing over the Pole and on down the other side of the world to Spitzbergen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Northward, Ho! | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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