Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday nights, the Northwestern team sees a movie of its most recent game. On Tuesday nights, it sees a newsreel of its next opponent. Most spectacular ball carriers this year have been Steve Toth and Don Heap, It was Toth who made the touchdown that broke Minnesota's string of 21 victories three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 9). Heap is a junior who, between high school and college, spent three years earning enough money for his tuition and gaining enough weight to be sure of making the varsity football team the first year he tried for it. Last week...
...Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their homeland of twelve tons of Chinese cadavers. Eye- worthy...
...pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king. One of its more spectacular features was a glassed-in terrace in which grew an orchard of genuine peach trees. This season, Miss Ferber's first in the apartment, brought an unexpected bumper crop. Some could be used in a silver bowl on the piano, others sent in baskets to friends in hospitals. But this didn...
...salute of 26 of the world's ablest cavalry officers, picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop of 37 in scarlet tunics and broad-brimmed hats, carrying lances with pennants, maneuvered to the tune of The Campbells Are Coming...
...harriers ran a perfectly swell race when he came in third behind the fast stepping Vilbur Woodland of Yale and one of his teammates. Henry Marcy was right behind him also, but these two runners are about the only ones who can be counted on to do anything very spectacular...