Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reactions and experiences differ among meditators. A Claverly student thinks the process "is a good thing, though I don't get any spectacular results. I don't even meditate every day, but it relaxes me at times. I have small expectations and I'm satisfied...
...idea got its first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story Pan Am Building, which was built five years ago with an 80-year air-rights lease that could...
...impact of human pollutants on nature can be vastly amplified by food chains, the serial process by which weak creatures are typically eaten by stronger ones in ascending order. The most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River...
They engaged in the most brilliant and spectacular form of combat in the history of mankind," Parsons wrote in 1917 of the pilots with whom he shared honors and excitement (he bagged eight enemy planes, was credited with seven "probables...
Harvard's baseball team pulled off a spectacular 20-hit upset yesterday by drubbing undefeated, league-leading Dartmouth, 17-3, in the Indians' home territory, and pulling into a half-game lead in the Eastern Collegiate Baseball League...