Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shang-yen, curator of the Peking Palace Museum collection, and Dr. Han Lih-wu, now Ambassador to Thailand, who supervised the removal of the treasures from Nanking. Proofs of the final selection, made with the help of U.S. experts, were flown back to Formosa for color correction on the spot, and are now reproduced, most for the first time, in ART, Masterpieces of Chinese Art. CALIFORNIA'S political gun slingers were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall...
...this point, the Crimson's reserve of strong players, who are just off the top six, proved decisive. Al Goldman, at fifth singles, defeated Joe Turner, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, in a two and one-half hour marathon. In the sixth spot, Ned Weld topped Tom Davidson, 6-1, 6-2, to give the varsity a 4-2 margin in the singles...
...dark spot on an otherwise good record for the year was the unusually large number of violent deaths among students," his report continued. Three students were victims of a fire in Canada during the Christmas vacation, two died in an automobile accident, and two ended their lives by carbon monoxide poisoning...
...Wheeling will have the number one spot in tomorrow's lineup, followed by Bob Ornstein at two, James Bailey at three, captain Lou Klein at four, Alan Steinert at five, and Perry Driggs, Frank Dodge, or Warren Iliff will hold the sixth and seventh positions on the team...
...Spot. Out of his blended love for "the Guns," scholarship and French history came his brilliant biographies of Danton, Robespierre, Marie Antoinette and his vivid studies of warfare. During World War II, recalls Author Speaight, General Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff to General Eisenhower, asked for a copy of Belloc's Six British Battles. "That is the man I want to read," he said; "he has studied the thing on the spot...