Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steamer circled the spot repeatedly, then sent a message describing the accident. After about an hour, when no other survivors were found, then the City of Rome, her prow only slightly dented, churned her way from the dark spot of oil upon the waters, on to Boston...
Submarines, seaplanes, and other naval craft put to sea. They found the spot of the wreck where bubbles of air boiled upward to the surface of the water. Divers went down and found the ship. They tapped her sides but no answering tap came from within. Yet hope was not given up. There was air enough in the S-51 to last for three days if any men had shut themselves up in one of the seven watertight compartments and were still alive...
...giant cranes were towed to the spot but a heavy sea came up and they were obliged to retire some distance until it should abate. Hope waned: 34 officers and men were in the hulk below. Hope was very dim. Thirty-four corpses? It was only unwillingness to abandon hope that made the would-be rescuers persist...
...known philanthropists. The state of Georgia, Dr. Rand points out, is unique in that it was founded, not for commercial purposes, but from sheer philanthropy by prominent Englishmen, many of them of the nobility. It is expected that a copy of the picture will be hung in a prominent spot in the State House at Atlanta...
Thus far the coming of fall has meant only a mild yet comfortable situation of uncertainty. Business prospects appear sound and healthy, but sufficiently stabilized to obviate much speculative enthusiasm. The real difficulty, so far as domestic business is concerned, is to find an important weak spot. Even Congress-long the scapegoat of business ills-is now persuaded of the political value of a constructive rather than a destructive attitude toward economic questions. If anything, tax reductions during the coming year should make prospective legislation attractive to business...