Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real test which will be made tonight is that of a suitable goalie. The University Club has a strong cage-man in Learnard who vied with Farrel of Yale on Saturday night in making difficult and spectacular stops. Jackson, Elkins, and H. H. Newell '29, who will all probably get a try at the goal position for Harvard, will have to be in the best of form to match the opposing cageman...
...even more spectacular Biddle venture was consummated simultaneously with the Television launching. Always a sportsman, himself a boxer of the first order, Anthony Biddle last week inaugurated a return to the sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds...
...Their spectacular letter-forming was one of the features of the day at New Haven, but that same feature unfortunately prevented the use of the big drum which is too unwieldy for use in anything but straight marching...
...many amateurs have lost either savings or credit as a result. Not every one of the 1,131 listed stocks has advanced in the Hoover Market, but few have gone off. Certain stocks have appreciated 75% and even 100% in value. For a fair view of the more spectacular aspects of the Hoover Market, investors might consider this table...
...foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked him for help in exploiting African diamond mines; and in rooms where chandeliers sparkled dimly like uncut diamonds, Thomas Fortune Ryan sat and talked with Harry Payne Whitney, Daniel Guggenheim and John Hays Hammond, persuading them to share this spectacular venture...