Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great men are of two different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we call a man a giant. Yet Washington was a giant; the perfect harmony and balance of his character may go unheralded today, but it is as important now as it was one hundred and fifty years...
...cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings...
Although five out of the nine encounters were exciting five game gruellers, most spectacular of all the matches was Kim Kanavarro's smashing victory over Yale's number one star M. Muir 15-11, 15-8, 15-0. In the last game Kanavarro literally smothered his opponent with a barrage of furious service aces. Equally impressive was the cool determination of Captain George B. Blake '39 as he fought to victory after it had eluded him by the closest of margins in the third and fourth games where Harding staged a valiant comeback...
...Kirkland Roberts and Abrams carried away the game, chalking up 8 points apiece. Roberts' spectacular shot from the center of the floor was a high sport in an otherwise uneventful game...
Feild explained and demonstrated with slides the processes involved in Disney's spectacular work in the motion picture field. "My fundamental purpose," Feild said, "is to introduce the more intimate side of Mickey Mouse and his follow-characters...