Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a spectacular and unprecedented accident happened to the University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like a rifle bullet aimed at a bull...
...Cornell oarsmen who take the water against the Crimson have turned in an impressive record this year, featuring spectacular wins over a consistently ill-starred Syracuse boat and a strong Navy crew. While the Harvard eight has won against the same opponents and by an impressive margin against Syracuse, there is no allowance for over-confidence on the part of the Crimson sweep swingers...
...last week Heywood Broun was about to accept his marching orders in the Church militant. Gossip-column rumors that he had been converted to Catholicism were, he admitted privately, true. Thus his conversion became the most spectacular since the late Colonel Horace A. Mann's in 1933 (Colonel Mann was credited with handing out anti-Catholic propaganda during the Smith-Hoover campaign...
...including 9,100 miles of airlines. These were presently lumped into American Airways. As might have been expected, the conglomeration had an operating loss of $3,400,000 in 1930. Successive losses brought continued shake-ups in management until 1932, when Plunger Errett Lobban Cord got control after a spectacular proxy battle...
...American Henley which had been running all morning was climaxed in the afternoon by the most spectacular contest of the day, as the trailing Crimson 150's put on a breath-taking superman spurt to pass the Yale lightweights for a full length within the last quarter mile. This gave them the Wright...