Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-eight hours after 48 unions had called it early last week, a general strike in Terre Haute was ended by the American Federation of Labor. As a show of Labor strength it had been a spectacular success-vastly inconveniencing the 66,000 residents of that Indiana manufacturing & mining centre by cutting off food supplies, stopping streetcars, taxis and trucks, closing stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general...
...Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When it was over, after four days of splashing in & about a Manhattan Beach, N. Y. pool, that small, sunburned sorority of young women whose agile and sometimes ornamental torsos are perennial decorations for U. S. sports pages had several spectacular new members, a new list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style ..............Lenore Right Mile free style ...............Lenore Right 220-yd. back stroke...........Elizabeth Rompa 220-yd. breast stroke..............Ratherine Rawls 300-metre medley .................Katherine Rawls Springboard dive................ Mary...
CICERO - G. C. Richards - Houghton Mifflin ($3). A prudent, patriotic, eloquent Roman genius, Marcus Tullius Cicero had the historical misfortune to live at a time when the more spectacular genius of Julius Caesar dwarfed all lesser men. Cicero's deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...
Like two other new materials introduced recently-Nitramon. du Pont's "foolproof" explosive (TIME, Feb. 4), and Solene, a solidified gasoline developed at New York University (TIME. July 15) - tempered glass lends itself to spectacular demonstrations. Last week it was unharmed after a 2-lb. steel ball and a11-lb. bag of steel shot had been dropped on it from six feet, after a pane of it had been placed on an ice cake and molten lead poured on the top surface, after a torsion machine had warped a sheet of it like so much cardboard...
Chief distinction of My Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains...