Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind by the numbers, so many lines per poet, so many poets per week, and so many literary periods per month. Since the reading covers almost everyone who has written a book in England since 800 A.D., and since the grades depend greatly on an ability to identify spot passages and supply a few facts about the authors, most men will never remember anything more than a few trite comments...
...index finger of the pitching hand of Bill Connolly, the portly right-hander who was scheduled to be the number one hurler for Harvard this spring. The finger is now well enough for Connolly to use it again, but only if he is allowed to cover the tender spot with adhesive tape...
...word apparently hasn't reached all Departmental circles. The Book Office has received Reading Period authorizations from roughly only two-thirds of all middle-group courses. With less than two weeks remaining before their time is up, veterans with no list to go on are on the spot. And any lists that arrive in the next week will be useless if they include books that must be ordered...
...guarantee maximum participation, the second round of 'Cliffe balloting will be conducted in the Registrar's office. As Annex freshman, sophomores and juniors hand in their study cards during the next two weeks, they will be handed a ballot and requested to vote on the spot. Seniors' ballots-will be distributed in their Agassiz mail-boxes
...After a lobster fisherman found a 1748 Portuguese doubloon in the sand flats of New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, gold-hungry citizens swarmed over the spot by the hundreds, set to work with pails, rakes and shovels, found about 15 more coins before angry cottage-owners called the cops...