Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lying in a New England bed under a New England comforter, derisively grinning at an alarm clock that was trying to get him up at 7 a.m. He said that he was not going abroad, was not going to become a professional writer. For a few days the spotlight still played about the Coolidges. Their comings and goings were recorded by the press. Omni-snooping reporters went around interviewing Mrs. Coolidge while she dusted up her house. After three days, however, Mr. Coolidge was able to go out on his front porch in shirt sleeves at 7:40 a.m., pick...
Unexpected products held the spotlight. Instead of a storm about corn, fresh tomatoes caused a furore. Mexican production was described as a menace. Italian growers were paying their hired help 43¢ a day compared to labor cost of 25 to 35¢ an hour...
...light workout, kicking off and using some of its simpler plays and forward passes in signal drill. After ten minutes of this sort of exercise while the Crimson supporters cheered them on, the players trotted off the field leaving teams B and C and the seconds to hold the spotlight...
Instanter the spotlight of popular interest swung from Edward of Wales full upon Henry of Gloucester...
Recent clamorous concentration on the virus theory, which is still in need of more conclusive evidence, throws the spotlight of controversy on the ferment theory. That too demands more research. Cancer controversialists agitate the Mur-phy-Rous experiments, eagerly await the forthcoming volume on the virus theory by Dr. Gye and Hatter Joseph Edwin Barnard which is now in preparation...