Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet the statesmen of the world and to have unrivalled opportunities for exchanging viewpoints. Said The Sunday Times of London: "He could not find himself in England at a more opportune moment." Certainly it seems hard to believe that, unofficial though his visit is, his presence on the spot will fail to influence the course of the mighty waters of conference diplomacy...
...Federal Government consistently claimed that its troops were winning. First, that the rebels had been surrounded in their barracks, and the revolt was over. Second, that the Federals were bombarding Sao Paulo and its fall was considered imminent. Third, that the revolt had warranted the employment on the spot of the General Staff of the Army, who were working out the final plans for ousting the rebels. Fourth, that the Federal troops, outside Sao Paulo, were endeavoring to force the surrender of the rebels without causing damage to the town...
...lodged at the Juilliard headquarters. There have been rumors of skylarking, of the "waving of wild legs" in naughty European centres, of an inadequately intense devotion to purely artistic education. The Foundation has therefore decided to mingle stern wisdom with its generosity in the future. American control, on the spot, is to be substituted for American beneficiaries' sippings of la vie de Boh?...
...historical spot at which the Democratic National Convention assembled. In the middle of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, in the pit where the delegates sat, only a few days before ardent swimmers had been splashing. The roof, that had often resounded with cheering of prizefight fans and from which circus acrobats had dangled in airy peril, was decked with the colors of the nation. The Convention restaurant, every year, had exhibited the freaks of the circus. The theatre in the building, which ordinarily was the seat of indescribable plays set forth in indescribable Yiddish, had been converted into a "Convention...
...touch of green, rising from lawn to treetop beneath a little pink spire, where three high roads cross, marks the spot where English begins to be spoken as one walks west from the lower East side of Manhattan: St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...