Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acre-military reservation near Harrisburg which was abandoned last year by the National Guard. Its site is Mt. Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
Last week, his hospitalizing activities received much unwanted publicity. The Italian hospital ship Helouan caught fire, burned to the water's edge in Naples harbor as tens of thousands lined the quays and wharves to watch the spectacular blaze. Fortnight ago, the Helouan had dumped 650 moppets from Rightist Spain at Genoa, where, cheering "Viva Il Duce -Arriba Espana," they were rushed away to refugee camps. Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the hospital ship tied up in Naples. Hundreds of tourists, including Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returning from a Papal audience, were prevented from boarding...
...although U. S. fortunes in general have risen faster, gone higher, dropped further, created more spectacular characters and lurid scandals than other countries can show, U. S. novelists by & large have stood by, left the field to angry muckrakers, uncritical official biographers, or to such able left-wing analysts as Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) or Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan...
...Murdoch Sopwith swore he would never race U. S. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt again. Last week's concluding pair of the four successive British defeats in the 1937 America's Cup series found all hands publicly cheering each other but Skipper Sopwith a little groggy from the spectacular quality of his beating...
...navigation thereof." Trumpeted Collier's, whose late Publisher Robert Collier established the trophy 26 years ago: "In no other year has the opinion of the industry been unanimous, as now, that a different selection would have been inane. The scheduling of the Pacific Ocean . . . was perhaps the most spectacular, most challenging day in transportation history...