Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mine at Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov, a member of the Communist Party up to the time of his arrest. According to the Soviet Press, Engineer Plotnikov became so vexed at Chelyabinsk by the boastful uppishness of the local Stakhanov gang that he ordered...
Little noticed among the more spectacular news, the Laval triumph in the French Parliament has a potential significance beyond any political speech or "dope" story about the Ethiopian war. After leaders of the various parties, including Fascist and Communist alike, had struck the keynote of unity and faith in democracy, the French Chamber, by an overwhelming vote dissolved the semi-military leagues and prohibited Frenchmen from carrying firearms. True the "freedom of the press" was curtailed by an act making punishable an incitement to assassination, but actually the freedom of the press under any government was never so all-inclusive...
Professor Owen hit the head-lines last night, not by killing his grandmother with a sash-weight, not by becoming Governor of Massachusetts, not by inventing a perpetual motion machine, but, very simply, by alleging a spectacular untruth to be true...
...West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters and radio commentators that converged on Fort Worth, Tex. last week to see Southern Methodist play Texas Christian felt sure that the winner of this, perhaps the season's most spectacular game, would get Stanford's bid. The Southwest Conference, now embracing six Texas colleges and the University of Arkansas, was organized in 1914. That was just four years after Texas Christian moved from Waco to Fort Worth and one year before Southern Methodist opened its doors. Short on tradition...
...From February 1933, the last month in which we were on the old gold coin standard, to the present, wholesale prices have risen 35% and the cost of living 16%," Dr. Kemmerer declared. "Many important items of food have shown spectacular rises during this period. The public, particularly our women folk, are becoming increasingly concerned over these continued advances in the cost of living; and consumers' strikes are being reported frequently...