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Word: spectacularly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downy-lipped German soldiers, boys of the 1935 class, the first called up by Hitler after he restored conscription. Having now done their two years' service, the class of 1935 was whooping with elation last week, just about to be sent home. They fought the sort of open, spectacular game cinema producers think is war. Cordial was Der Führer to another distinguished guest, the Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, pointedly snubbed by II Duce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Strong Peace | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...criminal lawyer's dream of a case." To millions of decent U. S. citizens the Flemington trial seemed more like a nightmare, and fortnight ago, after long study, a committee of 18 leading U. S. editors, publishers and lawyers agreed that it was "the most spectacular and depressing example of improper publicity and professional misconduct ever presented to the people of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After Flemington | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing car. A doodlebug generates anything from 15 to 65 h. p., can do up to 120 m. p. h. on a straightaway. Even though races rarely exceed 70 m. p. h., the impression of speed is spectacular, even scary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doodlebug Derby | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...expert in the spectacular art of jiu-jitsu, the Employment Office has a spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Know Any Jiu-jitsu? | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...camera's focus alternately, his financial career and his career with Josie Mansfield. Getting off to a fast start with some able stooging by Grant and Oakie, Arnold appears on his way to another of his masterful, belly-laughing characterizations, this time of the late Jay Gould's spectacular compeer. But enter love. Miss Farmer's rather self-conscious poignancy upsets the emotional possibilities inherent in Fisk's Wall Street development. Then set for a satisfyingly tragic romance amid the triangle of Arnold in love with Farmer in love with Grant in love with Farmer but faithful to Arnold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

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