Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game for which professionals have no time. The professional usually has his research program mapped out for months ahead of time. He is thus not likely to come across any unexpected phenomenon. It was a British amateur named J. P. M. Prentice who discovered Nova Herculis, the spectacular "new star" of 1934 (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). A British music-hall comedian named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost...
Premier Quiroga is a tough, tense little lawyer from the northwestern province of Galicia. Rich, honest, a spectacular conversationalist, he has had a hard time, in explosive Spain, living down his effective suppression of the Anarchist riots in 1932 when he was Minister of Interior in Manuel Azaña's first Cabinet...
...more spectacular conferences expected is that of July 20 on "Taking Democracy Seriously." This subject of dissertation will assemble such opposite viewpoints as that of Ray Murphy, National Commander of the American Legion, Raoul E. Desvernine, chairman of the lawyers' committee of the American Liberty League, Roger N. Baldwin '04, head of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Harry A. Overstreet, professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the College of the City of New York...
...pounding hoofs and boiling blood in one of the most virile pictures of the year. The redoubtable Joachim Murietta is sympathetically apologized for. "Unguarded Hour," with Franchot Tone and Loretta Young, is a collection of harrowing crises, foremost of which is the breaking of the district attorney's spectacular prosecution, simultaneous with his being accused of murder...
...Most spectacular feature of the Celebration is planned for that evening. From 9 until 9.30 o'clock, buildings on both sides of the River will be floodlighted, accompanied by a display of fireworks. This will be followed by a torchlight parade of students from the River to Memorial Hall for the Tercentenary Dance. The torchlight march will duplicate one of the most popular features of the 250th anniversary celebration...