Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goldberg, East Chicago grocer, had told the Federal grand jury "too much." Uneasily he confided to Federal officials that he had been threatened by members of the East Chicago police force. Then a Negro friend of his persuaded him to go for a stroll. He was "put on the spot," plugged full of gangster bullets. There armed citizens stood guard night and day to prevent a general witness massacre...
...series record by striking out 13, saw him in the third inning, with two men on, fan famed Hitters Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson with a total of seven pitched balls. Every delivery, made with a sidearm motion wide of the box, kept the ball lined against a blind spot, made by some extra bleachers in the green outfield, which Ehmke had noticed in practice. Rallying behind him, the Athletics took enough hits from Chicago Pitcher Charley Root...
Last summer at Camp Morgan (Y. M. C. A.), near Washington, N. H., the old sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...
...Flirtation Walk" is the center of many romantic episodes. It is merely a winding path in the hills along the river, but for generations it has been just what its name implies--Flirtation Walk. In a rather secluded spot is a rock overhanging the walk. Tradition says that this rock will fall and crush any girl who refuses a kiss while beneath it. There is no man in the Corps at present who can say that this is untrue...
Robert Beecher Howell, Nebraska's pince-nezzed junior Senator, continued last week as Prohibition's bravest champion. Having complained that the District of Columbia is a pretty wet spot which the President of the U. S., as chief District officer, might easily dry, up and having elicited a White House statement ("The President is glad the Senator has raised the question") asking for specific charges (TIME, Sept. 30). Senator Howell arose again and said: ''It seems to me that the President was a little unfair . . . to call upon me 'to state definite facts, with time...