Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other lavish methods of skyward travel are still available to the person who is in a hurry to get to the top so that he may get back to the bottom. The Skimobile at North Conway for example sends little cars nearly a mile to the summit of Cran-more Mountain at the rate of 1,000 passengers per hour. At Cannon Mountain the enthusiast goes up 2,000 feet in a cable car, if that's your idea...
Sprigle attempted to destroy the public "misconception" of nation-wide racketeering syndicates which operate with boards of directors from lavish underground haunts. "Rackets--that is, gambling, prostitution, etc.--are by nature local," he stated, "for they depended on local politics for their existence...
With D'Oyly Carte only a few weeks out of town, it takes considerable nerve for a group of amateurs to put on Gilbert and Sullivan. This is especially true of "Iolanthe," for of all G & S, it calls for the richest costumes and the most lavish staging. But in spite of this the Canterbury Players last night put on an "Iolanthe" well worth seeing...
...book is interesting as a non-alumnus' view of the University. The author is lavish with his praise of Harvard to the extent of embarrassment, but nowhere does he really analyze the sources of the University's greatness...
...thing was obvious from all the intercourse, it was that several other colleges have done better than Harvard in building themselves up as social centers for their students. Some of them accomplish it with fancy common rooms and lavish celebrations; Yale does the job by leaving enforcement of parietal rules to the discretion of the College masters, some of whom are quite discreet...