Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hitherto undefeated Freshman soccer team was overcome by a strong Broadford-Durfee High School eleven in a spectacular game on Soldiers Field Saturday...
...importance of these three flights cannot be overestimated. Although ocean flights are undeniably more romantically spectacular they are scarcely more perilous, and, certainly at the present moment, hardly as important to the advancement of practical aviation. Commercial flying must continue for.a while to be chiefly over land...
...three most outstanding features of the games were a field goal kicked by W. B. Wood '32 standing on the enemy 30-yard line in the first quarter; a 60-yard run by J. W. Crickard '32 in the third period; and the spectacular handling of a pass and subsequent dash for a touchdown by W. A. Beyer '32, in the last quarter...
...Sears Roebuck stock, less spectacular, has not lagged behind the advance. From a low of 51 in January, 1927, it climbed to a 1928 high, last fortnight...
...Father Ludwig's German landlady, who had loaned him her small capital. As a speculative venture, the loan was one of the most successful in history. Fraulein Herz lived to be repaid 200% each year on her advance. Father Ludwig lived to see his British factory a spectacular success, to create the Brunner Mond Co. and the Mond Nickel Co., to amass a large and surprisingly good collection of Italian Madonnas, and to beget Alfred Moritz Mond...