Word: spectaculars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drops of such spectacular leaders as wool, rubber and cotton, thanks to increased supplies and an end to scare buying, pushed the Dow-Jones spot commodity index almost back to where it was at the start of the Korean...
...most spectacular of the ten-year accomplishments of Dean David was his ability to raise over $12,000,000 during 1949 and 1950 for the school's future expansion. The impetus for this most intensive bit of fund-raising in recent Harvard history was, of course, the $5,000,000 given in June, 1919 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on the condition that it be matched by an equal amount within a year...
Along the flowered streets of Matamoros' El Jardin district, there are so many new and luxurious houses that one awed American mumbled: "This is just what the South must have been like before the Civil War." But none of the houses is so spectacular as a palace, now abuilding up the river at Nuevo Laredo, with 17 bathrooms, a swimming pool, five-car garage and three bars. For miles around, everyone knows that the house belongs to Chito Longoria, eldest (46) of the five Longoria brothers, who have done more than anyone else to make the once-dry lands...
...Black Eyes. One day, the sight of an old trophy he had won for diving gave Father Simon an idea. He would organize a water-sports festival. As the main attraction he would perform a really spectacular high dive...
...Clay Bedford, 48, a production-engineering expert on loan from Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Charlie Wilson brought him to Washington last May (at no salary) as his production troubleshooter, because he knew that Clay Bedford was the production brain behind just about every one of Kaiser's most spectacular projects...