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Word: spectacularisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repeated efforts to quell Comrade Kun only fired him to a more spectacular flaying of the judges. In the press box reporters from Vienna's numerous radical and communist papers grinned as they dashed off reams of lurid copy. They roared with mirth when Kun shouted at the Prosecutor, "Don't try to bully me, or I'll bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triumph of Kun | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Last week, Vanryn went down in five brilliant sets before the onslaught of small, chunky Julius Seligson, Lehigh sophomore, native of New York's Bronx. Confounding critics of form, Seligson followed this spectacular victory by defeating Ben Grochakoff of Occidental College, Calif., winning the Intercollegiate title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Tennis | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...SPECTACULAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...previous political history of James W. Good is creditable but it is not spectacular. He was born in Cedar Rapids 62 years ago. He served in Congress seven times (1909-21) and retired when he was chairman of the pivotal Committee on Appropriations. Since then he has practiced law in Chicago and raised potatoes and angora goats in North Dakota. He met the Beaver Man in 1921, when they worked on the Budget together. He managed the Coolidge campaign in the West in 1924. When Hoover asked him a year ago to Hooverize the U. S., Good consented with pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Machine | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

High Liver. Drs. James Howard Means (Boston), Thomas Ordway (Albany), E. H. Heath Jr. (Baltimore), reported spectacular improvements in pernicious anemia patients on liver diets. But publicity means popularity. Healthy people are stuffing themselves with liver. Canny wholesalers profiteer. Many a poor pernicious anemiac, for whom liver meant lustier living, can no longer afford to buy it. Dr. W. S. Middleton emphasized the fact that patients must keep on eating liver to prevent relapse; deplored its present high priced popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Minneapolis | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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