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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the United States and South America lies a wider gulf than can be bridged merely by diplomatic "good neighbor" overtures. Long have we valued Latin imports and found their mines and plantations a profitable spot for investments. But our interest has progressed little beyond the clink of finance. Our schools and colleges have been too concerned with falling Romes and Virgin Queens to feed upon the rich historical and cultural life of our neighbors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATIN MIND OVER MATTER | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...Cordingly and Bob Graves have been moved up to the one and two positions; Captain Jack Barr is at number three, and Bill Calfee breaks into the lineup in the number four spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revamped Golf Team Tackles Amberst Sextet at Belmont | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, was one of the gayest musical spots in unmusical 18th-Century America. Musical centre of this musical spot was the colonial governor's palace. In its spacious salons, between sessions of the Virginia Legislature, such distinguished amateurs as Thomas Jefferson gathered to make sweet music on viols, flutes, harpsichords. Now Williamsburg, restored by the Rockefellers, looks much as it did 200 years ago. But for Colonial Williamsburg Inc., looks were not enough. It wanted to restore the sweet sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hautboys and Candles | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Britain's Singapore base looked impregnable, but rangy, Bible-brandishing Major General Dobbie, its commander, refused to say it was, thought it "probably the most peaceful spot on earth." Almost as open a secret as the 18-inch naval guns dismounted to form land batteries, blabs Traveler Gardner, is the fact that nearly one-sixth of the funds to build the base came from the British sale of opium to addicts, a Government monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intelligence Report | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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