Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battle. The old man's son, Mr. Stanley Dollar, offered the Ship- ping Board $1,125,000 for each of the five boats now under lease to the Pacific Mail. He offered one-third spot cash, two-thirds in 4¼% mortgages. He guaranteed to run the boats regularly across the Pacific for, at least five years...
...Clementel, prepared for this reaction, attempted to scotch it on the spot. He declared that the extra currency was wanted for commercial purposes, that it would not be used to pay the Governments cash deficit, because, for the first time since the War, the Government has a balanced budget which takes into account every expenditure.* When Premier Herriot heard the news, he rushed to the Senate, met M. Clementel in a corridor, had a hot, short, strong talk with him. The result was that the Finance Minister remounted the tribune and toid the Senators in effect that he had been...
Beyond the polar seas, beyond the flows of ice and snow, lies a blind spot on the map, a never-never land to the explorers of the past. Peary, Scott and Stefanson have gone on to a greater discovery and the land of the Northern mysteries is still left untouched to challenge such men as Amundson, McMillan, and Olgarssor to add the last chapter to the history of continental discovery...
...Morain, Prefect of Police, was on the spot. Amid jeers, hoots and hisses; he lectured the students: "You are free to manifest your opinions, but you must not resort to acts of violence...
...well be disputed. Skowhegan, though unique, is not a 7 very large town, as suggested by the fact that (according to The Independent-Reporter) a lady of Skowhegan recently found in the street, near the postoffice, a check that another lady of Skowhegan had lost, presumably at that very spot, just six years...