Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's callers was his former Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, now Chairman of a Committee raising $150,000 to advertise his home city of Detroit as a spot delightful to tourists and salubrious for industry...
There was a second sign of the weather brewing. In Exeter, at Killerton Park, there was rain pouring out of the sky, but special trains, omnibuses, wagons, automobiles, drove straight to the spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
Next day an aviator discovered a large spot of oil and naphtha floating on the water between Syracuse and Cape Passero. The bottom lay 4,000 feet below the floating oil. Hope for the Sebastiano Veniero was virtually abandoned...
...Blue Blood!"; Blue Blood!! Blue Blood!!! chugged the engines of the Presidential yacht. Captain Adolphus Andrews thrust an ordinary pin into the spot on his chart which marks Plymouth, Mass., instructed his helmsman to make for that pin with all speed...
...eight-year-old girl has had laryngeal diphtheria several days. Dr. Arrowsmith finds her "struggling for each terrific breath." Instead of doing a tracheotomy instantly, he dashes to Leopolis 24 miles away, for antitoxin. He should have operated on the spot...