Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good enough to fill the position adequately. Dempsey who, judged by the eminently suitable criterion of gate receipts, had never lost the heavyweight championship, was reconsidered for the honor. Frantic and slow elimination contests were held, meaning nothing. Tex Rickard, having made professional boxing into a sport more spectacular than any since the wild animal shows of the late Roman Empire, was faced with a far more difficult task, that of preserving its pomp and magnitude...
...preparatory school outfit had its chief strength in Thompson who played a stellar game at goal and made a variety of spectacular and seemingly impossible stops...
...flow of gifts to the universities of the country for building, research and other purposes, less spectacular needs are apt to be overlooked. The recognition of the importance of securing financial security for the class that is notoriously one of the poorest paid is welcome to all those interested in the progress of American education. Any steps towards building up this weakest link in the system as it stands today are valuable, and Yale is to be congratulated on having instituted such a valuable endowment. It comes after a series of salary raises, and should help carry on the progress...
Last month he interrupted his series of spectacular purchases and appeared before the country in a new role. A machine which may be of epochal importance in newspaper publishing, by which type can be set by telegraph, was built, tested, proved successful. Gannett was the man who had backed the invention...
With the possible exception that S. L. Batchelder '31 may be in the defense line when the opening whistle blows, by virtue of his spectacular playing on Monday night, Harvard is expected to start the above combination. The Crimson outfit is eager to avenge the defeat earlier in the week but it will have to play superlative hockey in order to stop the brilliant attack of the Canadian forward line. In Monday night's game the Toronto defense proved to be a formidable bulwark against the Crimson offense despite the versatile showing of most of the forward linemen...