Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeney spotted them from a window, pointed, and sent four of his husky male followers out to get the freshman-joker's name. He refused to give it. At this point Campbell came out of his rooms in A entry and ordered everyone away.
The damage is already tremendous. Great acreages of winter wheat in the worst dust areas are already ruined-drifted under or simply pulled out of the loose ground by winds. Pasture lands have disappeared under drifting silt or have been spotted with hummocks of tumbleweed and mounded dirt. Ponds have...
Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted the planet Pluto (1930), is looking for a nearer and even more elusive object: a second satellite of the earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who...
The new nation picked the Arawak word Haiti (meaning Mountainous Land) for a name, then proceeded to split itself in two. In the north, the fabulous Henri Christophe made himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's...
"Outcha go, buddy", the guy in the spotted white suit was insisting, shaking the bed back and forth. In the other room, another man was shoving the furniture into a corner, and stood poised, about to throw a dirty tarpaulin over the collection. It was eight in the morning and...