Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recession intervened, and Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., exercising its rights as trustee for Alleghany's bondholders, blocked Robert Young's plans for reorganizing the Van Sweringen holding companies. Although hardly a week passed without spectacular attacks from Financier Young, Guaranty gradually squeezed him out of practically all say in the management of the railroads...
...Buckley, first sacker of this spectacular Yardling team, got two for four, as Harvard outhit Andover, 8 to 6. The Freshmen scored one each in the first, second, and eighth, and two in the third; Andover, two in the fifth...
...cycle of epic biography. Produced at a cost of $2,000,000, over a period of two years, with the services of six Academy Award winners and a cast of 1,188, it is not only the most ambitious production in Warner history but by all odds the most spectacular picture of the year...
What love interest there is in the story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...planetarium picture of stars in the night sky is breathtakingly spectacular at first sight, monotonous after repetition. Stokley, the greatest showman in planetariana, provides variety to keep planetari-addicts coming in. Three years ago he depicted the "End of the World"-a huge moon drawing close to Earth after millions of years, eventually breaking up and showering Earth with its fragments. Stuffy astronomers were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff...