Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...archipelago where no human beings live but a small colony of convicts; where only pirates, adventurers, and scientific expeditions have sojourned, where flora and fauna of vanished geological ages flourish in greater abundance and variety than in any other spot on the earth's surface-that describes the Galápagos, locale of William Beebe's latest scientific and literary exploits. His new book* issued under the auspices of the New York Zoölogical Society, is a saga of man, the ever-curious, in a garb that fits the tale, replete with gorgeous color plates, beautiful photography...
...recount may take more than a year and cost thousands of dollars. In Great Britain the process is handled on the spot and immediately. Such action often saves a detailed examination of the ballots for a legal scrutiny which is resorted to only on the insistence of one of the candidates...
There is, on the other hand, at least one bright spot. Hereafter the nervous declarer will no longer be forced to hesitate between a trump and a discard while his agonized dummy, who has seen both the other hands, twitches spasmodically across the table; and their will be considerably less recklessness when one can forecast accurately whether one's opponent is about to down four of a kind, or merely two pairs...
...John H. Vincent, from Lewisburg, Pa., and Lewis Miller, from Akron, founded there a school for Sunday school teachers. Gradually their course of instruction was broadened to include all respectable culture. Others than school teachers came to fill the tents and cottages. And before the 19th Century ended, the spot became one of the wonders of America. It was Chautauqua...
...yond old playground, fit spot whereon to commemorate the manliness which there was nurtured, shall soon rise, a noble monument which for generations will give convincing answer to such shallow doubts: for over its gates will be written: "In memory of the sons of Harvard who died for their country." The future of the University will not be unworthy of its past...