Word: saliently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach at last arranged a game between the two girls. Helen Wrills won 6-0 in seven minutes. What gave the decision its subsequent importance was the odd chance that Helen Wills went on to become the greatest woman player in the world and that Helen Jacobs' salient characteristic is a dark unshakable determination...
...Frank Baldwin Jewett, 56, vice president in charge of research of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president in charge of research of General Motors Corp.; the Franklin medal of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, awarded annually for salient achievements in phys ical science or technology, "without regard to country," from a fund established in 1914 by Utilitarian Samuel Insull...
Before starting on Things to Come, the salient production weakness of London Films had been technical. For this picture, which was made before the Denham studios were ready to function, Producer Korda installed a "Special Effects Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...
...snub-nosed young man who learned golf on a course built on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin, where his father was stationed as an Army officer, Lawson Little has given so much time to his game that at 25 he is still a Stanford undergraduate. His salient talent as a golfer is power. Where his game differs from that of most long hitters is that he utilizes the advantage his wood shots give him by superlative iron play and putting...
East-West. A salient fact about tennists is that they never tire of their pastime. Twenty years ago, officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association found a few temporarily at liberty between the exhausting string of summer tournaments and the National Championships, promptly and sympathetically organized an East-West series to keep them busy. How frivolous this series has become was demonstrated by the fact that one of the members of the West's team last week at The Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach...