Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Bob Green and right tackle Ken Booth, the two most reliable performers game in and game out, were again top-notchers for the total forces. Green's most spectacular play occurred in the second canto, when he and bucker Mike Cohen caught the fleet Brud Holland from behind after a goodly Ithacan gain on an end-around play. Booth was the outstanding blocked on the field...
...looking for a man to serve on a committee to revamp the Exchange's constitution. He picked a nonmember industrialist whose company was listed on the Big Board-Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. The recommendations of the Conway Committee eventually became the basis for the spectacular reform of the world's chief market place (TIME, Feb. 7, et seq.). Last week upon the nomination of Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. (who got his big chance on the Conway Committee), Carle Conway and two liberal-minded Chicagoans. President Robert M. Hutchins of the University...
Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
...section men, can comprehend the purpose and place of each component part as they could not in the past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from books which would otherwise have to be purchased. Less spectacular but of equal importance are other reorganizational steps concerning a change in reading material and a new order in the consideration of subject matter...
...several cases of severe bleeding in hemophilic men the application of the powder at the wounds has resulted in spectacular healing, when all the well known treatments failed...