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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three kilometers from home . . . When they were released at a predetermined hour, a watcher clocked them back in ten minutes. Though in one case the house was begun and in the other finished and stored with honey, the bees returned, not to their own work, but to the exact spot on which their house had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...such talk, though it would not down. At least, with Taft, the G.O.P. would be able-in fact forced -to make a frontal attack on all those issues which were slicked over and evaded in the G.O.P.'s overconfident 1948 campaign. Standing on such a hot and public spot, Mr. Republican in Ohio began the biggest fight of his political career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Republican Goes to Ohio | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors, Attention! | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Spot. In Van Nuys, Calif., police arrested John Edward Fuqua, found asleep in his car in Lullaby Lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Brightest spot is the construction industry. Although it started off slowly this year, building has generated plenty of steam. In June and July, a total of 196,000 new housing units were started, 4,200 more than in the near-record year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Muscle Flexing | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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