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Word: spectaculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crash-priority psychology, which often achieves spectacular results, also produced absurdities. Though lavish, laboratory equipment is apt to be overengineered, clumsy and wasteful. Says a British physicist of one laboratory: "The men in charge just sat down with a catalogue and ordered whatever they wanted. There was one fine electron-microscope that they said they hadn't gotten around to using yet, though it had been there a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Brahmins of Redland | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Mocking Greed. Slowly, they built up a reputation on the nightclub circuit. Then, four months ago Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek gave them a 15-minute TV go with spectacular results. Currently, they are at Chicago's Mister Kelly's at $2,500 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fresh Eggheads | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Included in these last four outs were two legs before wickets, and catches by Keith Lowe and captain Mansoor Ali. Lowe's in particular was spectacular as he made a diving catch of the ball inches off the ground as it had come fast off the bat of Nigel Anthony...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Cricketers Down Yale, 159-48; Gracious Gesture Prevents Greater Rout | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...Leventritt Award. "We were sitting there," recalls one Leventritt judge, "when in walks this tall, mad-looking fellow, sits down and plays-of all things-Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody. He bowled us right over. Ordinarily, the judges would not even seriously consider anyone who played a spectacular piece like that. But it was obvious that this was an enormous raw talent; they don't come any bigger." His playing of a far more demanding repertory clinched his victory. When it was announced, he grabbed the daughter of Rosalie Leventritt, the stately dowager who sponsors the contest, and joyously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The All-American Virtuoso | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...match with Dell, Junta was spectacular. Almost completely recovered from an early season back injury, he bounced back from a 1-3 deficit in the deciding third set to take the next five games and win the tense contest...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Tennis Varsity Upsets Yale, 6-3, To Capture Eastern League Title | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

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