Word: saliently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second salient factory in the spirited enthusiasm in football is the fact that it has never come under the finger of suspicion. Never have we heard of a college football game being "in the bag." The sport will ever remain popular just so long as the rules committee forces the employment of officials that are interested enough in the game and will do nothing to detract from its popularity by a questionable decision...
Last week Postal's parent, International Telephone & Telegraph, made its 1931 report. Salient points: 1) Net income: $7,654,000 against $13,750,000. 2) Telephones in the system provided 59% of the gross revenue, increased from 688,000 to 769,000. Of the gain 50,000 was from acquisition of the Rumanian system. 3) I. T. & T.'s telephone business is distributed as follows: South America, 534%, Asia, 3.2%, Europe, 27.9%, North America (Mexico) 7.8%, West Indies...
Miners and textile workers cut all telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky's old slogan: "EUROPE IS BURNING AT BOTH ENDS!!" Rich farmers and mill owners were kidnapped. Peasants were threatened with death...
...salient defect in the Department of Comparative Literature is the lack of any full course devoted to the Literature of the Renaissance, as a whole. There are a number of courses which discuss various aspects of the period, but which treat literature in a cursory manner. Several reasons for urging the creation of such a course are apparent...
...abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind, because there are occasional moments in the Tone Poem when that salient fact can be lost sight...