Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland's relief crisis last week was only the most spectacular part of a State-wide situation which has been growing worse all winter. A special session of the State Legislature adjourned the end of February without solving the relief problem, has since been called to meet in another special session for the purpose. Relief funds began to run out in Cleveland last month. Last week, most of the city's 800 relief workers, who had all been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised...
After some spectacular maneuvers off Capri, the cruisers Fiume and Zara opened up against the radio-controlled target cruiser San Marco, firing live 8-inch shells at a range of eleven miles. An airplane circling above the target ship radioed to the Conte di Cavour that "the third salvo of shells hit the target squarely." Two planes then blotted out the San Marco with a smoke screen like the drawing of a quick curtain...
Just as sensational, though perhaps not as spectacular, was the Crimson victory by Sophomore George Downing in the 16 pound shot. Downing three times broke the meet record, and his final throw of 48 ft., 9 7/6 in. Surpassed the record set by Johny Dean in 1934 by eight inches. He failed by 3/8 of an inch, however, to break Dean's all-time Harvard record...
...Freshmen Spectacular in Defeat...
...happens every May Day, Joseph Stalin publicly reviewed in Red Square this week a dazzling demonstration of Soviet armed might. In private, Moscow observers noted that scarcely one year has passed since the Dictator began the most spectacular purge that ever hit an army, navy, air force. Last week it was possible to reconstruct from numberless small items in the Russian official press a fairly accurate picture of the secret May-to-May military purge which is not over...