Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beer bottles more than 100 years old were the most spectacular of the relies dug out of the basement of Harvard Hall yesterday by John F. Brown of the American Georgian Society. Brown is engaged in reconstructing the Harvard Hall kitchen as it appeared from...
Florenz Ziegfeld did some first-rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
Fortnight ago Italy's military position was about what it had been for a month. On the southern front Italian columns had made a spectacular dash to Wadara, then withdrew to Noghelli while food and munitions were catching up with them. Harar, overlooking Ethiopia's only railway and onetime headquarters of the Ethiopian forces opposing Italy's southern armies, had been bombed to ruins. In the north, after the great battle of Enderta and its smashing sequel at Amba Alaji (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.), all Italy expected to see the Fascist troops sweep bravely on down...
...from stimulating Oxford's rowing Blues to greater efforts, a dozen defeats dulled their interest in the sport. Last month, while Cantabrigians were trying new and spectacular routines of preparation, such as having each man in the boat row a stroke in turn to perfect coordination, all Oxonian oarsmen could think of was to guzzle milk instead of good strong beer at their training table. The night before the race, to nerve themselves for the ordeal, they consumed a champagne supper...
...chastened Council is the abandonment of many glittering and outworn pretensions as shown in the preamble of the new document. Realizing that direct jurisdiction over students was a doctrine as wishful as it was impractical, the framers of the new constitution have settled back to accept a less spectacular but more fitting role. The chief function of the council will be, "to bring before the governing bodies of the College expression of undergraduate opinion in an effort to make College policies better adapted to the needs of the student body...