Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ajax and Achilles turned out to be meat by no means. With spectacular coordination they kept each other smoked while driving in for bite after bite. They hurt the Spee, and badly. Some of her guns were silenced-one 5.9 turret tilted. Captain Langsdorff ordered his vessel to the nearest haven, Montevideo...
Hybrid seed costs about twice as much as ordinary cornseed, but yields increases of 10% to 40% per acre-increases so huge in farm eyes that one group of farm publications declared: "Hybrid corn is the most spectacular and far-reaching agricultural development of this generation. It ranks in importance with the invention of the telephone and the internal combustion engine. ... In the midst of economic transition, most people have overlooked the transition in food production technique, of which hybrid corn is the forerunner...
...With a spectacular exhibition of power among its relatively inexperienced wrestlers, the Crimson wrestling team walloped the Tufts grapplers, 24 to 8, Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. At the same time the Freshmen tied a strong Tufts 1943 team, 20-20, with the advantage of two defaults to start with...
Another change this week is the shift of Jimmy Redmon to the 121 pound class, but Ted Schoenberg will wrestle 128 again. At 135 Ray Stone managed to hold his own during the week's trials, and Thomas is all set to try to repeat his spectacular victory of last week...
After receiving this slap, the Strong Man ordered his stooge President Dr. Federico Laredo Bru to dissolve the Cuban falange, an offshoot of Spanish Fascism, and legalize the Cuban Communist Party, which soon boasted 25,000 dues-paying members. Strong Man Batista's subsequent spectacular State visits in Washington to New Dealer Roosevelt and in Mexico City to even Newer Dealer Cardenas seemed to go over big with the Cuban populace. The Strong Man's return from these visits was celebrated in Havana with unprecedented popular rejoicing and wild huzzas. Last week, the Communists swung into line behind...