Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substantial deficit as Conaty, flashy B.U. wing, dented the strings twice and Wilkins, defense man, sauk another to put the Crimson three goals down as the first period ended. The Freshman play ws featured by the work of Vin Freedley in goal who turned back the B.U. attacks with spectacular saves...
Then, for a smashing finale, the script forsakes Pearl Buck for the first time to invent a spectacular locust plague. In what is the cinema's first investigation of what may prove a fertile field for drama-the War against the Insect-Wang and his men. ankle deep in bugs, battle with fire, clubs and feet the swarm which drones down the valley, blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally...
...week in a Manhattan auditorium, 200 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering craned forward in their seats. The paper which Dr. Chauncey Guy Suits, young General Electric engineer of Schenectady, was delivering on the nature of electric welding arcs was highly technical, but the accompanying demonstration was spectacular...
...still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most spectacular bid for patronage was the 2? base passenger fare, inaugurated by southern and western roads where the traffic is light and forced on all roads last June by the Interstate Commerce Commission over the loud protests of the Pennsylvania, New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford. Last week...
Capping its spectacular catch in Afghanistan, where it got the oil rights to every foot of that Shah's territory (TIME, Jan. 11), the Iran deal, if finally confirmed, will be the reward of nearly three years' patient angling...