Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most spectacular of the smashing, thundering, rumbling, banging, whizzing, screeching demonstrations was the night sniping by a battery of automatically-aimed 3-inch "archies" at 27-foot sock-shaped targets towed 1,200 yards behind bombing planes more than two miles aloft. Giant searchlights picked out the "socks". Machine gun tracer bullets streaked aloft. White flowers with angry red centres blossomed abruptly and faded where shrapnel burst in the sky. A direct hit of the last target's towline ended the show. Experts pronounced the anti-aircraft marksmanship the best yet achieved...
There have been many close verdicts, and a liberal sprinkling of spectacular plays in modern Harvard Holy Cross football history, but the dominant characteristic has been the fierce struggle on the one hand to stave off an even more threatening attack and on the other to break down a perennially stubborn defense. For moments of relaxation from the tension of hotly contested encounters we must look back to the first game ever played between the two colleges, in the Stadium in 1904. Harvard won 28 to 5, using so many substitutes as completely to disgust contemporary scribes. Touchdowns then counted...
With airplanes, tanks, armored cars and motor cycles competing, the cavalry, once the most spectacular service of national defense, is so little heard of that few citizens know who is U. S. cavalry chief. Major General Herbert B. Crosby is his name. A 56-year-old Kansan, he served in Cuba, the west, the Philippines and, as a Colonel of Infantry, in France. He mounted the highest of U. S. horses...
...Lateral passes are protected. In previous seasons only forward passes were declared dead when uncaught or knocked to the ground. Now the attacking team can perfect a lateral passing attack with same protection. This change is expected to develop a complicated and spectacular system of open passing play. Lateral passes, however, can be intercepted like forward passes, and run back for gains and touchdowns...
...STORY OF GEOLOGY-Allan L. Benson-Cosmopolitan ($4). The vast rhythms of the dying stars, the sleepy, dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles...