Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant relaxation from the ardours of exams, the University offers Marco Polo, an amusing burlesque of medieval China. But the picture is neither is spectacular nor as exciting as the advance notices would have one believe, and in spots the action even bogs down heavily...
...Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks...
Completely proved at the outset was the fact that GHQ A. F. could assemble a scattered force at unfamiliar airports within a minimum of time. Most spectacular feat in this phase was the transcontinental movement of 945 men. 42 planes, by Brigadier General Delos C. Emmons' First Wing, normally based at March and Hamilton Fields, Calif. Brash, toughly amiable General Emmons, whom many of his comrades look upon as a likely successor to Commanding General Andrews when the latter retires, transformed 16 Douglas bombers into transports, shuttled them and their pilots as many as eight times across the continent...
Since joining the Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year...
Biggest suit was started last February by William S. Brown, as president of the General Drivers, Helpers and Inside Workers Union Local 544 in Minneapolis, and individually, also by Farrell Dobbs, a member of the union, and the fabulous Dunne brothers, Grant, Miles and Vincent, who led the spectacular truck drivers' strike in Minneapolis in 1934. The plaintiffs are demanding $470,000 for articles in the Daily Worker linking them with the criminal underworld...