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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the German firing squad definitely refuses to level his rifle at Nurse Cavell and he is shot on the spot. The rest line up and at the order to fire each raises his rifle so that the bullets strike above the woman's head. Nurse Cavell, however, falls down in a faint and an officer steps forward and despatches her with a pistol." The pistol used in making the film was, by way of meticulous realism, a German Luger (see photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...that jungle-covered spot of northern South America, where Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil touch each other angularly, is Mt. Roraima, famed among travelers and explorers. It is a huge wall of red rock that rises, like a ruddy tree trunk, 1,500 ft. sheer above the surrounding plateau and altogether some 8,500 ft. above sea level. It seems unscalable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mt. Roraima | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Petersburg, Fla., her 104th birthday duly celebrated. Mrs. Catherine Fenton of Jamestown, N. Y., went up for her first airplane ride last week. She rode with George W. Haldeman, who piloted Ruth Elder to a spot in the Atlantic somewhere near the Azores. Said Mrs. Fenton: "I am happy, O, so happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Matters | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...next time you come in here you'll see my face and hear my voice in your imagination. You will note this spot where the platform stood and you will imagine me standing here. Say, Jesus, I'm through in St. Louis. Though I never walk the streets of St. Louis again in the flesh, I shall walk them in the spirit. Often in spirit I shall come to the Locust street entrance of the Coliseum, where those fine policemen have met me for seven weeks. . . ." Billy Sunday reached for his overcoat and let the converts come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...long been engaged in the search for absolute proof in the matter. It has long been believed that the college was founded in 1636 but there was no definite proof other than the reminiscences of some of the faculty members. The new inscription hitherto in a hidden and secluded spot bids fair to settle the matter for all time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD INSCRIPTION UNCOVERED SETTLING DATE OF COLLEGE FOUNDING | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

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