Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hindle's Spectacular Passing...
...Spectacular as that operation was and useful as it might be to specialists in birth control, it was simply one incident in a profound research into fundamental biological activity which Dr. Burr and colleagues at Yale are quietly pursuing. They want to analyze "the electrical properties [of living creatures] and determine where and how they appear and to find some reasonable explanation of their presences. . . . It is not improbable that they may be bound up with the dynamic wholeness of a living system. Electrical currents produce electrical fields and it is possible that a living organism possesses not only many...
...growth of Dudley Hall has been far from spectacular, and in many ways it has been harder for the commuters' center to reach maturity than the Houses. Difficulties have faced its members in coming out for teams and participating in other undergraduate activities. Many of these men are engaged in scientific studies in the labobratories, which takes all day long. And since they cannot remain in College during the evening, many activities have been thereby shut off from them. Furthermore, most of these men have never lived away from home, and the effort that it takes for people to adjust...
President over by Colin McClaurin '38, secretary of the organization, the officers thrilled the newcomers with spectacular movies of climbing in the White Mountains to outline the various ways to got up a high cliff...
...shot more mice, woodrats, chipmunks, a cottontail rabbit and observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said, seemed to have forgotten how to bite. But among nearly 100 animal specimens collected there was not a single new species...