Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the charges and proposed investigation. In the Philippines the Collectivist Party, in control of the Legislature, has independence as a primary plank in its platform. Richard V. Oulahan, an able correspondent of The New York Times, has made an investigation of the situation in the Philippines, on the spot. His conclusion is that the Collectivist leaders use "independence" as a catchword, but really care only to oust General Wood and have him supplanted by someone who will allow them to run the Government in their own prodigal, inefficient and, to them, profitable...
...eight centuries ago, in the year of the Hegira 517 (or A. D. 1123 by our calendar) that Omar Khayyám, the Anacreontic astronomer-poet of Persia, laid down his lute and passed with gentle stoic smile to the tomb he had chosen "in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over...
Harvard bowed to McGill last night 2 to 0 in a game of lost opportunities. On several occasions a Crimson forward pushed down the lane and passed over to center ice in front of the goal; but every time his team mate assigned to cover the spot was behind, before or nowhere at all. McGill had hardly more than two good chances to score, but on both of these the Canadians profited 100 percent...
...five yards to go, Hammond kicked to Yale's 20 yard line. Yale's ball. Pond made two yards around right end. The quarter ended with the ball on Yale's 18 yard line. The ball was carried to the other end of the field to a fairly dry spot, while the two teams mopped the mud from their faces. With the exception of Lee's 15 yard run neither team had been able to display its new formations. On account of the rain and mud the game had degenerated into a punting duel...
...strike has been arbitrated, Dr. Abbot now reports. The four per cent, diminution noted since last year has returned to normalcy, and more sun spots are now appearing. A new cycle of spots is beginning in the solar latitudes farthest from the sun's equator, according to observations by Professor G. H. Peters, of the U. S. Naval Observatory. The number and size of spots will gradually increase for about eleven years, until a maximum is reached, when they will again fall off. Electrical disturbances are commonly associated with sun spot increase...