Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most spectacular match of the day was the contest between B. B. Whitbeck '29 and Bowden of Columbia. The visitor triumphed in two hard fought sets by the score of 10-8, 9-7. Captain Whitbeck was the steadier player and had the edge on Bowden in vollying and coming...
Credit for I.T.&T.'s spectacular rise is given, and properly, to the Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn. French and Danish by ancestry, they were born in the West Indies near the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. In the last 15 years, they have won enviable war records, become friends and allies of kings, made great fortunes in the company which they dominate, Sosthenes as president, Hernand as executive vice-president...
...Under the clamorous claims of the U.S. drys, consolidated, President Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just...
...gala crowd of some five hundred people attired in costumes ranging from the prehistoric to Victorian and modern ties, were on hand to lend colour to the spectacular fire in the Iroquois Club, early Saturday morning about 3.30 o'clock...
...satisfied with the status quo. It should be remembered that against the impersonality and what can almost be called pseudo-professional spirit of the modern contest must be balanced the improvement in quality of the football which is witnessed, as well as its superior meriover former days as spectacular entertainment. The obstacle which has asserted itself time and again in this discussion of overemphasis has its root in the unfortunate failure to modify either of the extreme views in favor of a somewhat more balanced scale...