Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...
...novels. Just as in The Constant Nymph she studied reflections of the erratic musician Sanger, as they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against the less irregular pattern of the Frobishers outweighs and hides their unreality. The glow of "red sky at morning, shepherds' warning," pervades the pages...
...great for the result obtained, and that the initiative was displayed in a field outside of the general run of the college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case, the students were brought into the limelight, more so, perhaps...
...both cases it is a question of seeds falling on stones and thorny ground of vital information unheeded by the adamant ears of the authorities, or directed at the public, after a brief and spectacular growth of interest, as in the case of General Mitchell, being choked by the thistles of indifference...
...spectator the Dartmouth game means an exciting spectacular contest. To the Harvard player it means a clean hard fought game in which sudden off tackle plays, and powerful end runs require herculean defensive efforts and in which the fear of long forward passes caught by fleet, sure fingered ends is ever present...