Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later on, in an accident I displaced one of my own bones rather badly and again, though nothing could exceed the kindness of the registered medical gentlemen on the spot, they were unable to replace it for want of perfectly well known technique which every qualified surgeon should have at his fingers' ends. It took me ten days to get to Birmingham, where an American doctor of osteopathy, also classed as a blackleg by the General Medical Council, set me right after 75 minutes of skilled manipulation...
...battle front in real estate remains, of course, Florida, where the boom is still in full swing; but there is indication that subsidiary fronts are or soon will be established elsewhere if present conditions continue for much longer. Long Island appears already as a likely spot. A few months ago a restricted but dramatic boom appeared at Rockaway, where real estate prices skyrocketed at the prospect of a shore development...
...after all, powerless to do any real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League...
...many details as can be crowded into the working day. Their idea seems to be that as the department necessarily has supreme authority over all operations, it should therefore exercise this authority in deciding a mass of even highly technical matters in disregard of experts in charge on the spot as in the case of the Shenandoah. This is done in the ignorant conviction of duty faithfully performed...
Death, some think, is a sort, of recitation-an "unseen" that you have been trying to spot through a somewhat rowdy study-hour. Whether you know anything or not, you have to stand up. Last week the grim Master of Headmasters called on Francis H. Tabor, head of St. Bernard's School, Manhattan...