Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacular Crimson representation will feature the thirty-fourth annual Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling tournament at Ithaca this weekend, but Coach Pat Johnson is counting on capturing laurels for the first time in many a similar competition...
...Harvard graduate, Richard Whitney has had a spectacular career in Broad Street, which makes his failure more important than the loss of the two or three millions by his firm. As vice-president in charge of the New York Exchange in October, 1929, when securities were plunging down at the rate of ten points a day, Mr. Whitney temporarily halted the crash. Representing the hastily-formed pool of Morgan and other bankers to save the market, he bid high on 25,000 shares of Steel and saved the day, thus creating the "Black Thursday" legend. Later, as President...
...local malletmen enter the game favorites after their spectacular win at New Haven last Saturday when Captain Skiddy von Stade saved the first Blue series match. Tonight he may again be called upon to lead a rally. Gay Dillingham and the veteran Warwick Stablor promises strong support for von Stado...
Bill Glendinning, heavyweight Crimson threat last season, has had a disappointing record. Lacking the speed and dexterity of his former triumphs, Glendinning bowed to Player of Navy and Charlie Toll of Princeton whom he beat last year in one of the most spectacular matches in the history of the sport. More notable has been the work of 118-pounder Harvey Ross whose only loss has been to blind heavyweight Allman of Penn. Easily taking in his stride minor opponents at M.I.T., Brown, and Tufts, Ross was one of the two who conquered at Navy...
...wrong, that at the polls there would be rather better than a bare majority of votes for installing an Austrian Nazi Cabinet which in turn would merge Austria with Germany. Given last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation for sticking at nothing, only one thing more was needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German...