Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in the harbor a few ships got away, many others remained strike-bound as the two seamen's factions battled for control. Most spectacular victory for Curran was delaying for eight hours the ship carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Buenos Aires for the Pan- American Peace Conference. Most significant development was the shift of Eastern strikers from mere sympathy with Western strikers to identical active demands for themselves...
...Midshipmen and other Naval men will come in a much less spectacular and more prosaic way, by train. Thus they will arrive in Cambridge as any group of landlubbers would...
...necessary to carry through the four-year plan. There will be no struggle between departments, no question of juris diction. There will be only one ultimate authority in all economic questions Party Comrade Göring." Significance. No immediate change in German economic policy was foreshadowed by this spectacular upping of Göring, but it served to emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from the Party's economic radicals: Dr. Goebbels, Dr. Richard-Walther Darre, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Robert Ley. Leader of the German Labor Front and Herr Wilhelm Keppler, an engineer...
...Russian cannon fire through a valley at Balaklava, in the Crimean war, proved to be a maneuver less beneficial to England's military than to its literary history. Caused by a mistake in orders, the sole practical significance of the charge was to give the glamour of a spectacular British victory to what was really a minor British defeat. Its significance in literature, as the inspiration of Tennyson's famed ballad, will be considerably enhanced by this picture. The Charge of the Light Brigade explains the confusion in the Crimea as romantically as possible. If the result...
...parade is scheduled to reach the Garden at 7.30 o'clock and the rally should be concluded by 10 o'clock. The campaign, of course, will not be officially over until Tuesday, but after the rally, the spectacular events will be over, and the work remaining will be mainly of the routine organization work, with the emphasis on getting "out the vote...