Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indoor polo, as played at the Commonwealth Armory which is only exceeded in dimensions by that of West Point, is capable of providing the spectator with fast action, beautiful headwork, and spectacular horsemanship such as is impossible to witness in any other sport...
Herbert Hoover had barely unpacked his trunks in the White House when Prohibition's most spectacular international incident arose to embarrass him. Off the coast of Louisiana U. S. Coast Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend...
...Most spectacular rise of the year was Camel, whose sales were pulled back to the 1931 level after the disastrous sales results of temporarily abandoning newspaper advertising in 1932. Most spectacular setback was for Lucky Strike which lost 4,500,000,000 in sales. Standard Statistics estimates of domestic consumption from 1929 through 1934 (in billions...
East v. West Crack players selected from Western and Eastern college teams played the tenth annual all-star benefit game at San Francisco. Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton's 72-yd. run to a touchdown was the most spectacular play of the game. Outplayed in the first half. East came back gamely but not quite enough in the second. West 19, East...
After 28 years in the museum's storehouses and preparation rooms, the skeleton was hung from the ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...