Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game yesterday only went to five innings and resulted in another victory for Team A by the narrow score of 1 to 0. A real pitcher's battle made the contest one of the most spectacular which has been staged on the field this year. Both Solomon Andrews '27, who did the mound honors for the first team, and Spalding, who was in the box for the seconds, were in rare form, although, the Team A man far outshone his more experienced rival...
...spectacular recovery of three-quarters of a lap by R. H. Kobes '26 in the University medley relay race was the feature of the meet. L. L. Robb '25, still stiff from football injuries, got away to a poor start, and when he yielded the baton to Jefferson Fletcher '26 his opponent had a lead of a quarter of a lap. A slight loss of ground by Fletcher was recovered by B. R. Cutcheon '25, but when Kobes took the track the Tech man was still well in the lead. It was not many seconds, however, before the Crimson runner...
Since the inception of the London- Paris air routes, 37 persons have lost their lives and 12 have been seriously injured. These accidents are so spectacular that they draw attention away from the enormous mileage of steady, uneventful flying. On the British and Dutch air lines, for the last three years, the average number of passenger air miles per passenger fatality...
...Marseillaise sounded the conclusion of the spectacular ceremony; and the procession dispersed as Communists sang the Internationale in an adjoining street and Royalists held a morning ceremony at the grave of Marius Plateau, Royalist slain by Germaine Berthou, the girl anarchist...
...there are the ministers. A good spectacular divine is as much of a godsend to the press as to his parish. The Manhattan press is blessed with at least three such godsends?the Revs. Percy Stickney Grant, John Roach Straton and William Norman Guthrie, and last Monday this trio filled the front pages as never before...