Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given way to stinking little steamers. Earringed harpooners have yielded to modern marksmen, who earn as much as $10,000 a season for shooting harpoons from a cannon. Instead of being dragged alongside, the whale is pulled aboard a "floating factory" ship and converted into oil right on the spot...
...tough spot this time with the Man of the Year, because it is plain that he can't be anybody else but Hitler. On the other hand, it is just as plain that you will not have the courage and daring to publish his picture on the front page of TIME, risking thereby a number of subscriptions and facing the howl of the rabble. It will therefore be amusing to watch you trying to wiggle out of that perplexity...
...known to have rushed to Warm Springs to complain to Franklin Roosevelt that the Reserve had not been consulted until two days before SEC cut loose. Here was the sort of division in the enemy's ranks which a great fighter like Amadeo Giannini could not fail to spot. Holding his tongue with difficulty as Transamerica stock broke a hefty $30,000,000 worth, he limited himself to snapping: "We are firmly of the belief that the motive behind this complaint is one calculated definitely to prejudice Transamerica Corp. in the eyes of the public...
Charley Lutz's participation in the Tech game did him no harm, and he will be able to answer the opening whistle from his forward spot but Chet Legg and Rick Rabenold are ready to step in if his ankle gives him any further trouble. Homer Peabody will probably get the starting nod from Coach Fesler over Bill Humes, while Dick Sullivan and Doug MacLeod will be the first line guard replacements...
...comment came from Stanford University's Professor-Emeritus William Alpha Cooper, made a first-class German Eagle, or Professor Ralph Haswell Lutz, second-class. Said President Ray Lyman Wilbur: "It looks like an attempt by Hitler to look for friends. I'm glad he didn't spot...