Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events, if Spinachseed is right, the department is going to be in a hot spot. The official report on the metamorphic ape is due sometime in July, and this year's Geology 1 class may be required to retake the course next year under the new rules...
Three different spot landing events will test th pilots' skill in handling his plane; in the 360 degree spot landing the pilot will have to make a complete circle from a low altitude and try to make his plane land as near to a line as possible. The 280 degree event will be from a lower altitude and be only a semicircle. Then comes the bullseye landing, where the pilot has to guide his plane to a landing on a spot...
...event, played this week at famed St. Andrews on the Scottish coast. All golf enthusiasts are well aware that the nearest Great Britain has ever come to putting a dent in the Walker Cup was in 1932 at Brookline, when Briton Leonard Crawley hooked an iron shot to the spot where the big silver trophy was on display, knocked it off its pedestal. This year, however, Britons were talking about the "ascendancy of British amateur golf," were hoping for their first victory in ten tries...
...chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize play, You Can't Take It With...
...truck and boat (equipped with only one paddle), Amateur Anderson ferried his transmitter and receiver to a high spot six miles across the flood-swollen Wabash River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...