Word: spotting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through the sunny morning, delegations heaped wreaths on the spot where Gaitán fell. Then, in a 30-block-long procession, they streamed toward the green lawns of the capital's Parque Nacional. The crowd-some 180,000 strong-was the biggest Bogotá (pop. 400,000) had ever seen. At 1:05 p.m., the hour of their martyr's death, screaming horns and sirens made a louder racket than any New Year's celebration the city had ever heard. There was no violence...
Pepsi-Cola had not been hitting the spot. Earnings had slipped, the last quarterly dividend had been omitted, and within a year Pepsi's stock on the New York Stock Exchange had skidded from 24⅛ to as low as 7½ a share. Pepsi's President Walter S. Mack Jr. thought it time to hire halls in New York and Chicago and tell stockholders the score...
Leaving aside the critical fallacy involved in judging an artist's work by guessing at his "intentions," Miss Genauer came down with both high heels on Rattner's rationalization. "It is easy," she wrote, "to spot technical proficiency quickly, but to decide on the honesty of an artist's approach on the basis of only one of his works, and that examined at an average speed of two or three pictures a minute, takes considerable doing...
...Margery Sterling's meringue grades from .12 to .15.) Enough plastic foam to insulate a six-room house can be shipped in a single barrel, saving storage and trucking space, to the site where it will be used. A workman can soon learn to cook it on the spot...
...southern teams, which have been practicing for over a month, have always been a tough spot on the varsity schedule. This Wednesday, with some extra practice of its own, the team will meet Clark University at home...