Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countenance. Last week, growing steadily, almost visible to the naked eye, a vast blemish appeared on the eastern solar cheek, a disfiguration 50,000 or 60,000 mi. across, caused by some disarrangement of the internal molten solar humors. Dr. David Todd of Amherst College, in reporting the spot to laity, reminded them to look next for displays of the aurora borealis. Just what influence the sun exerts-whether cathode rays, Hertzian waves or negatively charged particles-to cause "the dance of the dead men," the "merry dancers," the Polar or Northern Lights, is undetermined by scientists. But two centuries...
Captain MacMillan early in the spring of 1924 made a long trip over the snow and icefields southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited...
...several occasions I witnessed their great athletic carnivals. Thousands of people assembled to watch a dozen or so men chase a greased pig about the field. These who showed the greatest skill in this performance were greeted with cheers that a king might envy and on the spot were made high priests in the temple of Brukzaus...
...neatly fenced off spot on the banks of the Charles near Stillman Infirmary where Lief the son of Eric built his Vineland cottage has long testified that when Christopher Columbus sailed into the setting sun he was not taking as big a chance as was formerly supposed. But further investigations, the results of which are still buried in scientific terminology, show that Lief himself was not the first and that dozens of explorers visited America before Columbus. Mr. Burton Kline, in the current World's Work lists five periods of exploration before Columbus came, and indicates that the wise Christopher...
This intersection of Mt. Auburn Street is quite as dangerous, and quite as much used, as that already marked one block farther down. Last evening's accident was, providentially, only a timely warning and not a tragic lesson, to the Cambridge authorities. The spot should be marked, and, until it is, students will do well to continue to approach it cautiously...