Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Almer, whose work was the brightest spot in his team's drab performance against the Crimson, resigned his position yesterday, Coach O'Hare told a CRIMSON reporter last night. The B. U. Mentor could offer no explanation of Almer's act, but announced definitely that the ex-captain would not play again this season. Almer's defection will force the Terriers to present a patched-up forward line. Wenneberg, a substitute wing going to center, Provost, a defense man, has been named acting captain...
...Instead of a Lenine at the helm, there appeared Benito Mussolini, the man of the hour. Seizure of power under the above circumstances, I am inclined to think, does not deserve to be censured. Surely a modern Cincinnatus who has had the ability to bring about the "one bright spot in Europe" must have meditated considerably before choosing his plan to take possession of the ship of state Sincerely yours. F. E. LA CAUBA...
...Charlton in Germany. In that test a small amount of serum from a patient who is convalescing from scarlet fever is injected into the skin of a person who may be acutely ill with the disease. If the patient has scarlet fever the skin becomes pale at the spot. This is taken as an indication that the serum of patients recovering from scarlet fever contains antisubstances against the disease, and these act against the toxins causing the eruption and bring about the local blanching of the skin. In 1897, Weisbecker in Germany began the use of serum from convalescing patients...
...into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country fighting for nothing, one shudders to think what will become of the great cauliflower industry...
...valiant guardianship of Fitzgerald in front of the Cambridge Latin net was the one scintillating spot in the losers' play. The eight goals registered against him were largely due to the poor checking of his forwards and the utter futility of his outer defense. He was constantly peppered by the Crimson forwards, and he made several brilliant stops...