Word: spottedness
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That surreal image, which might have come from a Magritte painting, was how a young Turkish sponge diver from a small Mediterranean village described some curious objects he had spotted lying near a sunken shipwreck. When George Bass, a nautical archaeologist who had been rummaging around the floors of the...
After the victim gave police a description of the suspect, they spotted Tholand crossing Dunster Street near Holyoke Center, Morse said When the officer was 10 feet away. Tholand dropped the knife, Morse said. Tholand was taken to the Cambridge Police and booked for armed robbery.
After the student gave police a description, two detectives searched the area around the Common, according to Deputy Chief Jack W. Morse. The detectives spotted Innis being "shoved off" one of the MBTA buses that stop at the Common, Morse said. After a witness identified Innis as the assailant, he...
Stubbs lived at a time of intense curiosity about the animal world. Strange creatures and people from the corners of a growing empire drew crowds when they were put on show in rented London rooms; photography had not made all things familiar. The wonders of Africa, America and the Pacific...
Stubbs painted quite a few such marvels (though not, alas, the Arabian nightwalker or the Spotted Negro). He portrayed lemurs, monkeys, a rhinoceros and several leopards, and foreign animals gave him the pretext for two of his greatest images. One of these was a painting of a cheetah that had...