Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
There were other games. One of the most spectacular games ever played on Soldiers Field was the Freshman game of this year's Seniors the class of 1939. The Crimson lost, 21-19, but the regulars were beginning their four-year development, regulars like ends Bob Green and Don Daughters, tackle Ken Booth, centers Tim Russell and Rick Hedblom, backs Chief Boston, Frank Foley and Austie Harding, and Harlow's jack-of-all-trades, Cliff Wilson...
From Washington came more spectacular news of the mischievous effects of limiting emergency power. Month ago, when a Lockheed 14-H (on Northwest Airlines' Flight Four from Seattle to Chicago) fetched up against a pine tree after taking off from the Billings Municipal Airport in Montana, all sorts of wild guesses were hazarded about the cause of the accident. Investigators of the Bureau of Air Commerce went to Billings and tried the experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered...
Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German Führer, sent only subordinates to confer with the Viscount. The consideration with which he treated them was considered spectacular. Lord Runciman's program included 20-minute formal calls on President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza; two lengthy conferences with henchmen of Henlein, the second lasting until 2 a. m.; next day lunch with...
...most spectacular operations developed in the last few years is the transplantation of fragile corneas from the eyes of dead men to the eyes of the living. When Evangelist Minister U. G. Harding of Portland, Ore. heard that such an operation might restore sight to his failing left eye, he sent a form letter to twelve condemned men in California's San Quentin prison, asking for a cornea. But not one could he get. Fortnight ago, Rev. Mr. Harding visited his 80-year-old friend, Mrs. Margaret Carr, who lay dying in Berkeley, Calif. Just before she closed...