Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore Sir James was making believe in a sound spot-cash cause, when he took the platform and quaintly whispered...
...Even though the present Beck Hall building is to give way to a modern structure the University aspect will not be entirely effaced. It is proposed to provide a permanent home for the Harvard Alumni in a spot happily situated directly across from the home of the undergraduate, the Harvard Union. Here Harvard men connected in some way with the University may make their home in company with their families and enjoy the double advantage of residing in close proximity to their alma matter. At the same time enjoying the conveniences and appurtenances of a first class modern building...
...crop of Lampong was far below normal. This year's crop, not yet delivered, is only about 15,000 tons. Spice traders (pepper is the most important of their 108 spices), trading in spot pepper and futures, are short when the time of delivery arrives. They must get pepper at any price to fulfill contracts. They must draw from the surplus Alleppy and Tellicherry in India and in England, and pay dearly. Prices rise. From a normal price of 12?-a pound, pepper quotations have risen to 43?. Brokers prophesied last week that a high of 40? would...
Another of Chicago's gang shootings took place one pleasant afternoon last week. It was held at a spot where it was most convenient for Chicago citizens to see everything but most inconvenient for Chicago police to do anything, at the crowd-jammed corner of Madison and Dearborn streets,* two blocks from the City Hall...
Francisco came potent Archbishop Edward J. Hanna; from New Zealand came Mita Taupopoki, chief of the Arawa tribe of Maoris, once the most warlike tribe in New Zealand; from Manhattan came Bishop John J. Dunn, who brought greetings, regrets from Patrick Cardinal Hayes; from many another spot came many another layman & divine. As they came to Chicago in 1926 and will go to Carthage, North Africa, in 1930, so they flocked to the 29th Eucharistic Congress in Australia...