Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second flight made from the spot that the accident occurred...
Harvard astronomers had no luck in trying to spot through clouded skies, the lunar eclipse which occurred last Saturday afternoon...
Flagship of the British Grand Fleet in 1914 was Jellicoe's Iron Duke. She lay anchored last week in Scapa Flow at almost the exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters...
After fighting long and hard against the strong groundswell of the publishing business, Scribner's Magazine last May crashed on a reef and foundered. But too old and honored was Scribner's to be abandoned utterly. First, Publisher Dave Smart of Esquire went salvaging on the spot where it had disappeared (TIME, Sept. 4), dredged up its 80,000 circulation at a reputed cost of $11,000. Then Publisher Charles Shipman Payson of The Commentator set out to salvage Scribner's itself...
...starting lineup finds Loth Withington in the fullback spot and from that spot he will be called on for much of the kicking. In the left half slot will be Cliff Helman, who will have the veteran Hoar as a running mate in the other half back position. Rod Townsend will start as field-general, alternating in that spot with Hoar. Hal Tine and Ted Lyman are also set for action in the backfield...