Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wall, is something of an unknown quantity. In the backfield the Green, with Dooley, McPhail and Lane left over from former championship elevens, would seem to have a slight edge, although Yale has Kline, Noble and Caldwell. The latter, in particular, shone behind the line last Saturday with several spectacular runs. He was personally responsible for two of his team's three touchdowns, one of which came at the end of an 80-yard march down the field, which the Eli back accomplished almost single-handed, a three yard buck by Foote being the only gain in this drive which...
When William Edwards was very young a physician, examining him, declared that he was "spectacular...
...rise was rapid. Studying street conditions, he made himself an expert on refuse removal, and became, at 304, the Street Cleaning Commissioner. All the newspapers characterized his work in the department as "spectacular." And already he had won the Carnegie medal for bravery. He had been standing, that one afternoon beside Mayor Gaynor, as was his custom. It had become an old joke among those who did not like him that "Big Bill" Edwards always stood beside somebody. Whenever cameras clicked, he stood beside somebody, and in the following Sunday's rotogravures you saw somebody's picture...
...Bill" Edwards catching the glance, will chuckle within himself. He is fat now; he couldn't run two hundred yards, but one thing he remains, and is content to remain, something that it is hard to find a name for, except an old one, and that is-well, -spectacular...
...revealed last week that the spectacular rise of General Motors stock last July and August had resulted in a decrease of the total number of preferred and common holders from 53,097 (second quarter) to 47,805 (third quarter). The weak had sold, the strong had bought. The corporation now has some $180,000,000 in cash, second only to the balances of the Ford Motor Co. (reputedly...