Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball magnates are grinning ghastly smiles. Under the spotlight of major league performances a half million dollars worth of hand-picked ivory from the minor leagues has proved to be a little worse than ordinary osseous substance. The six sorrowing sahibs engaged last winter in a battle of the bank books for the minor league stars. The players purchased: Fielder O'Connell and Pitcher Bentley by the Giants for a total of $140,000, Shortstop Sand for $40,000 by the Phillies, Pitcher Kunz for $30,000 by the Pirates, Baseman Hale by the Athletics for $75,000, Baseman...
Baby buggies are in the sporting spotlight of England. Mrs. Lilly Groom, of Eastbourne, Brighton, took the perambulator propulsion title, doing 52 miles from London to Brighton in 12 hours and 20 minutes. Her baby slept peacefully most...
...stage will not be lighted in the usual way by footlights and overheads, but by spotlights placed behind the proscenium. This system of lighting has been effectively used in the production of "Back to Methuselah" by the Theatre Guild of New York City. The Dramatic Club, however, will be able to use this system much more effectively because of the recent invention of a spotlight which covers a larger area, and is easier to direct. A new color method, which uses silk instead of gelatine plates in the light, will also be used...
...victory by thrashing the "Jayhawk" again. Of a certainly the football capital of these United States is a wandering one. It is no longer nailed down east of the Alleghenies, as it used to be in the comfortable olden time, 'when a half-dozen big Eastern teams held the spotlight year after year and ruled the Gridiron Empire unchallenged. However, it still is the ambition of every good team in the country to beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore...
...movement for conducting such groups at Harvard was first started in the spring of 1918 and with the enthusiastic support of President Lowell five groups were launched. Within 24 hours, over 200 men signed up, thus calling for the formation of several new groups. Since then the spotlight that the war threw on political and economic questions has been turned off and interest has seemingly died out with it. During the next two years similar series of groups were conducted with less success...