Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ward contributed the most spectacular play of the game when he caught a long fly in deep left field...
...British are not a phrase-making people and their stubborn defence of Ypres has not been illuminated by a slogan, like "They shall not pass," the battlecry at Verdun which set France aflame. But in a less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack...
...American is naturally an egoist. He loves to do things in a spectacular way with himself as hero. Subconsciously he knows himself to be just a little better, stronger, and more farsighted than any foreigner. This supreme confidence, misplaced as it may be, gives him unbounded energy to do his part well. It is, however, often damaging. He instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted...
...prove their prowess. The champions of each side will meet at the Locker Building at 2.30 to prepare for the gruelling contest. As both septets are in top-notch form and more than eager for the fray, the countless thousands who will attend can be sure of a spectacular clash between the old-time rivals. The battle will be open to the public and the sympathizers with the players of each team will be allowed to express their sympathies actively, by joining in the strife and supporting their favorites in time of need...
Princeton's decision to permit her students to engage in intercollegiate athletics--sport of the sort was dropped at Princeton when we entered the war--has excited both adverse criticism and applause. As the writer understands it, Princeton has no idea of a restoration of the former spectacular displays as staged at the Yale Bowl, at Cambridge, and at Princeton, but, on the contrary, a sane and economical indulgence in games against teams of other colleges. There are now some seven hundred upper classmen in Princeton who, under conditions that have obtained for nearly a year, have been debarred from...