Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next feat, perhaps the most spectacular and sensational of all, was when Ostheimer and Fuhrer spent 36 hours without rest in climbing four peaks from the Columbia Ice-field, one of which, the North Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...
Perhaps the least spectacular branch of the Government is the one with the job of keeping the other branches, and all the people under them, in touch with one another. Stamps, mailboxes and mailmen are so closely integrated with daily life that the average mind is about as conscious of the U. S. Post Office Department as it is of an eye or an eardrum...
...Godfrey played well as the Negro cook in the spectacular film, Old Ironsides. He is also potent at football...
...such herding are already indicated by the half million reindeer that have been reared in northern Alaska from a herd of 1,300 introduced in 1902. The Antarctic will always be less important than the Arctic economically, thinks, Dr. Brown, but it offers what remains in the world of spectacular pioneering. Huge "missing stretches" of the supposed Antarctic continent remain to be mapped. The terrific Antarctic blizzards have yet to be explained. Without referring directly to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's proposed Antarctic airplane survey next year, Dr. Brown deprecated exploration from the air as too swift and cursory...
...finally, what idea, what theme for Novel No. 100 would best please light fiction-readers right now? Why, the menace of Communism, to be sure. The newspapers are full of it every day and the Home Secretary lately held that raid on the Reds' London headquarters, no end spectacular even if it did not prove much. Typist, world-traveler, Communism ? the very thing. Hurrah...