Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scorched Canton. The famed "Scorched Earth Policy" of Generalissimo Chiang, to destroy everything of value in Chinese cities likely to be taken by the Japanese, reached its spectacular climax last week at Canton. Dynamite charges carefully laid a few days before under the principal public buildings, factories and utility plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter...
Handicapped by the absence of Red Bailey and several key linesmen, Dunster lacked scoring punch, despite Dave Nussbaum's punting and Harwood's passing. Jack Barr made one spectacular...
...Spain's northern frontier a smaller, less spectacular withdrawal of foreign fighters also took place. Into France went 350 cheering men of the International Brigades, until now a part of the Leftist Army. Surrounded by French Mobile Guards, they exchanged fists with French Leftists, shouted: "They didn't need us any more. They can win all by themselves!" Arriving in Barcelona to witness the complete evacuation of the remaining 8,000 International Brigade men was a League of Nations Commission of 19 members, which included Noel Field, U.S. member of the League's Permanent Disarmament Commission...
Seventh Symphony, most pretentious of the three, used Beethoven's great opus as an accompaniment for somewhat irrelevant but agreeably spectacular choreographic capers...
...Sweringen brothers bought their first railroad-the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.)-from the New York Central for $8,500,000. The road made money steadily for 15 years. But between 1927 and 1929 the Vans made a second, less prudent purchase. After a spectacular tussle with the Taplin interests (Pittsburgh & West Virginia R. R.), which resulted in a virtual corner on the stock market, they bought control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie...