Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...track athletes, a few years ago, was C. Curtis Woodruff Jr., sprinter. When he was graduated he went into the contracting business with his father in Forest Hills, Long Island. One warm evening last week he came home from work and began to play with his dog "Spot". The dog dodged behind a lilac bush, raced around the house; Sprinter Woodruff dashed after him. An hour later his father found his body crumpled on the floor of the garage, dead. The run had been too much for his heart...
...your issue for April 19, 1926, you say that "Death came to a flowering spot in southern California" to Luther Burbank...
...President was invited last week to spend his summer 1) at Lake Winnepesaukee, 2) on Cape Cod. He announced that he would summer somewhere in New England but would not choose a spot until he had sent a man to investigate the offered sites...
...More capital is invested, more men are employed in coal mining than can possibly be supported on its profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that the British birthrate has dropped toward the French level. If continued, this decline offers automatic insurance against similar troubles recurring in the next generation. But in the present must come the inevitable sacrifice accompanying a return to normal conditions...
...Donkey's turn. With a very old and broken Don Quichotte on his back, led by the faithful Sancho, he started across the stage. Slowly and deliberately he moved until he reached the centre, aspiration of every debutant, haunt of prima donnas and tenors. It suited him, that particular spot. He stopped. Tenderly de Luca coaxed him. Bravely, as bravely as his padded fat form would let him, he pulled and coaxed and pulled, with no influence at all on the Dapple of the evening, who stood as fixed as a hydrant until the curtain was dropped...