Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dominant political party of India is the Indian National Congress. It boasts a paid-up membership of 4,500,000 (yearly party fee: 9ç), puts on spectacular demonstrations, governs, through the seats it holds in the provincial legislatures, nine of the eleven provinces of British India.* Periodically it scares British governors with threats of boycotts and passive resistance campaigns...
...small fortune from promoting mining stocks, hired a press agent and proceeded to splurge. He gave banquets for bigwigs, planned a $50,000,000 corporation with Charles Lindbergh as president to control the nation's airways,* had a nasty squabble with Claude Neon (lights) over patents, ended a spectacular sally into prizefight promotion by himself trying to knock out Gene Tunney. He also turned a pretty penny floating and promoting mine stocks, climax of which was the forming in 1928 of an investment trust, Metal & Mining Shares...
...months after publication Wheat and Soldiers had become Japan's most spectacular best-seller (almost 5,000,000 copies...
...spectacular touch was added to yesterday's fun-making when one thousand students donned skis and acted as extras in a mass skiing scene which was filmed by Hollywood cameramen as a background for a movie about the carnival which Walter Wanger (Dartmouth '11) is making. The scenario was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bud Schulburg, both graduates...
...noticed a slight droop in the annual sculpture show of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week the 1939 show opened, and by the time the critics had written their reviews, the droop became a full-fledged wither. No matter how faded, however, Whitney bouquets always have some spectacular posies...