Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast of current opinion, a Pittsburgh electric supply house sent down a catalogue showing the latest thing in electric chairs...
...narrative requires a wealth of the kind of detail that newspapers and press associations do not ordinarily carry. In 1929, when TIME sent its first correspondent,† David Hulburd, to Chicago, it began to discover that narrative quality could be greatly improved by TIME'S own on-the-spot reporting...
...mounting costs that have forced several auto manufacturers recently to raise prices." It was more than that. The company's failure to get new financing (TIME, Feb. 23), with which it hoped to boost output to 1,500 cars a day, had left it in a tight spot...
...Puritans had clinched first place even before the start of last night's bouts by qualifying eight men in the finals during matches earlier this week. Adams notched the runner-up spot...
...member of the Consulate staff, recently back in this country . . . told me the situation was even worse than when I was there, and that those in American business firms and other concerns are all typing to get Hong Kong assignments, "it being so awful in any spot in China proper...