Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year -$25,000 each from four Insull utilities...
...tackle positions, with Tom Gilbane at center. These three regulars have been the foundation of the Brown line for two seasons, and have offered stony resistance at all times. The end posts will be filled by Frank Meadow and Mal Ball, both men having risen to places in the spotlight recently. Meadow, an unknown two seasons ago, has proven himself the best end on the squad, and a brilliant analyzer of plays while on the defense...
...fresher news which shoves Harvard out of the "biggest" spotlight developed last week. The University of Texas and the University of Chicago are going to cooperate in setting up an 80-in. telescope...
...friend the Pope an inviolable means of communication between the Vatican and the remodeled papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. A system using extremely short radio waves would suffice. Such waves would be relatively cheap to produce. They may be concentrated into a straight, pencil-like beam like a spotlight. But for utility in signaling there must be no obstacle between transmitter and receiver. Hence the transmitter may not be beyond the receiver's terrestrial horizon. For the straight, light-like short waves cannot pass through the bulge of the earth or bend around...
...Spotlight was printed on rough stock, illustrated with pencil sketches and wood blocks, with headlines in heavy, modernistic type...