Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reserve forward line of high caliber, and Clark, whose hard body checking against Toronto was largely responsible for the low score will be ready to enter the fray at either Coady or Pratt's post on the defense. Captain Cumings, whose phenomenal goal guarding has been a bright spot in the season so far, has a capable understudy in Morrill, a Sophomore...
...Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land. Geese, gulls, eider ducks fly northward from Alaska and Siberia in early summer and return with fledglings. Prevailing...
...Theatre of the Revolution and Semperante Theatre of Improvization (both founded in 1920). Respectively a repertoire of post-revolutionary plans and a series of dramas improvised on the spot by the actors, in the manner of the ancient Italian Commedia dell Arte...
...your issue of Nov. 23, p. 28, you refer to the Daily News (the first of two publications that have substituted the picture of the body for "X marks the spot" as merely the Daily News. But later in your reference to the Evening Journal you are careful to say the Hearst Evening Journal. Surely every one knows that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst, but anyway, if you must tack the Hearst onto it, why not also mention the names of the gentlemen who own the Daily News? The latter would be news to more of your readers than...
...these days of good direction, curb their dramatic potentialities by refusing ever to look ugly. We could name half a dozen who continually appear, with the aid of trick photography, as something between an archangel and an artist's model. But, in the long run, tooth enamel, and spot-lights below one's double chin, will never take the place of a desire...