Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crooner Alice Faye differs from operatic Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, so differs the beauteous yellow parlor canary from that less spectacular-looking musical technician, the Glucke Roller Canary. Ordinary house canaries just sing. Rollers roll. They trill and pipe some twelve identifiably different kinds of music. For 400 years eager teachers have bred away their natural song, using organ music to teach them Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn...
...after each goal, is automatically given to the team just scored on-for a throw-in from out of bounds just under the basket. This speeds up the game, adds about seven minutes of playing time, reduces the advantages of tall fellows over short ones, results in more spectacular tries for baskets and larger scores...
...Krupp, business failures from John Law to the Van Sweringens. There is a warmly-written, fact-laden essay on medieval Liibeck, centre of the Hanseatic League, sections devoted to business in Venice and Florence, to booms & crashes in Nurnberg, Antwerp, Bremen, the rise and fall of the Fuggers, the spectacular careers of Jacques Coeur, financier of Joan of Arc, and of Gresham, who backed Queen Elizabeth. But all this, with asides about church finances, taxes, makes up only the first half of the story of the businessman's endless race with ruin...
Midway through the second frame, Captain Bob Burke of Princeton slapped a penalty shot into the net at 12.44 to tie the count after Freedley had climaxed three spectacular saves by sitting on the puck. Late in the period Ralph Pope took Harding's pass and broke the deadlock at 18.07. In the final frame Harding sank Roberts' pass at 5.20. The Crimson held the Tiger at bay until just before the final bell, when Barnicle beat Freedley for the last score...
Apparently Heurtley, who was forced to leave college because of ill health, was making a spectacular effort to reach the Sunny South in time for the winter season on the beaches of Florida. Whether his discovery by the Coast Guard cutter will terminate his venture has not yet been determined...