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Word: spot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomore declares: "Personally I don't know any student in college who drinks regularly every day or keeps liquor in his room or club except for special occasions. Most buy what they want and consume it on the spot in toto. The result is that when the Harvard student drinks at all he is very apt to be drunk, whether he is an excessive drinker or not. This makes the Harvard situation difficult to classify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRINKING ON WANE THINKS DR. CABOT | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

...Lincoln visited this godless spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sonneteering Sorehead Floods Square With Scathing Satire; "Sonnets of a Sorehead" Prove Bitter Against Everything | 4/2/1925 | See Source »

...only foreign capitals in which the U. S. is not represented are Moscow and Constantinople?with neither of which the U. S. has had any formal relations since the War. Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, with the title of High Commissioner, represents U. S. interests at the latter spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rearrangement | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

Last week, the brothers went up to Washington (Charles had been visiting with William at the latter's home in Miami) and re-emerged for a moment into the National spot light, prompting the question: "What are their present activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: The Bryans ad Interim | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant. They were unhurt. When they had fallen 1,000 feet, they had pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, descended easily. Both said that at no time had they lost consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Plunge | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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