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Word: spectacularly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of photography has been marked by spectacular jumps in popularity, but this miniature camera boom exceeds anything I have seen in my fifty years of experience in photography," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Says Candid Camera Craze Has Made The American Public Picture-Conscious | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...appropriations to the President, the patronage arrangements for which in previous administrations the Speaker had been a sort of clearing house began instead to be handled much more directly by the White House. Thus the job that, after his 20 years in the House as an able if not spectacular Southern politician, came to William Bankhead last year was by no means as consequential as it had been. If, in the first years of the New Deal, the Speaker found it harder to run the House, there was also from the President's point of view, less need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Days | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...them with less than 7,000 members. Some of them date from the theological squabbles which attended the religious revivals of the early 19th Century. Some comfort their members with assurances that all the rest of the world is wrong, and will be painfully proved so by some spectacular, millennary cataclysm. Some cater to adepts of what Dr. David Starr Jordan called "sciosophy" ("systematized ignorance"). Out last week was a book about these teeming little sects, result of 15 years of study by Rev. Dr. Elmer Talmage Clark of Nashville. Tenn., secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Legalists & Charismatics | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Madame du Barry, Andrea; of heart trouble and pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. Redhaired, green-eyed, emotional, Caroline Louise Dudley Carter, already 28 and divorced when Belasco gave her her first part in 1890, attained first & overnight fame five years later in The Heart of Maryland, in whose most spectacular scene she gripped the clapper of a huge bell 30 ft. above the stage, swung her body back & forth to mute its tones, saved her doomed lover's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...eliminating mathematics from the list of required high-school subjects, directing that pupils do their homework not at home but in the classroom. When infantile paralysis delayed opening of the schools this fall, he staged an education-by-radio stunt. Last week Superintendent Johnson came out with the most spectacular and revolutionary decree he has yet handed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Earn a Living | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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