Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circulation. Of course if two-dollar bills replaced one-dollar bills, there would be just half as many bills in circulation and the cost of replacement would be cut in half. Even a slightly greater use of two dollar bills would effect a material savings. But the "unlucky" two spot remained obstinately unpopular...
Another high spot of the meeting was the declaration by Mrs. Nelle G. Burges, President of the Missouri branch of the Union...
...been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body when reproducing the scene of a murder, a stock phrase was used, " X marks the spot. . . ." How this phrase is vanishing from journalism was deplorably demonstrated last week by two Manhattan gum-chewers' sheets...
...killing has occurred, jostle one another for a glimpse of the body while the blue-coated officer pushes them back. Such people pored with great enjoyment over the photograph of the maimed Flake, of the dead Belinskys, enchanted that from their favorite newspapers that annoying phrase, "X marks the spot," has disappeared...
...know what I have been seeking. Harvard is so huge and widespread and complex that no Freshman can stand in one place, and with his eyes upon one spot, say "This is Harvard." And I greatly doubt if anyone else can. What I want to find is something eminently symbolic which in my mind will mean Harvard, prue and simple...