Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which grew rapidly. He continued to denounce corruption in New Mexico politics, naming persons and particulars. Once in walking through the state capital with his little daughter, a state officer whom he had accused of corruption suddenly struck him. For ten minutes they had a fierce fight on the spot, and then Magee pulled out victorious...
...impossible flying weather only a fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
After several chilly, disappointing visits to the towering, ice-clad peaks across Smith Sound, the NA1 and NA3 settled into a narrow, sheltered neck of water called Flagler's Fjord. It was only a third of the way to Cape Hubbard, but an admirable landing spot. The next days were spent, when weather permitted, plying to and from Etah with stores of oil, gasoline, food, many trips being necessary to stock the depot adequately...
...Trenton, Neb., met ten Pawnees from Oklahoma, seven Sioux from South Dakota. They held a "big smoke," patched up the first "peace" between their two tribes in 52 years. Between them had been "war" since 1873 when the Sioux massacred 156 Pawnees, near the spot of the present reconciliation...
...Arlington Cemetery they laid the great pacifist to rest among the bodies of soldiers. Soldiers were on hand to give him military burial, taps were sounded and they lowered him into the earth, into the very spot that a few years ago had been chosen by Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks as his own final resting place,* below the empty tomb of Dewey, across the hill from the Unknown Soldier, on the heights overlooking the city of politics...