Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Axis. If Fuhrer Hitler had any answer to this tough talk it was to announce a spectacular tour of inspection of Germany's defenses along the Rhine on the French and Belgian borders. Dictator Mussolini also inspected fortifications along the French border, stopping here & there to make a speech. At Turin he said that...
With the Davis "perfect wing" as a starter, Consolidated in ten months built its new boat from the ground up without help from Army or Navy. Long before the ship had flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
...World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign had flopped, that the Fair's most spectacular musical event would be a song fest in the Court of Peace by the world's largest and loudest collection of glee-club singers (5,000 amateur voices...
...Commencement," concluded Porter Sargent, "has become a large scale piece of advertising, for prestige and money. . . . Commencements at the older universities are competitive as to spectacular features, speakers who will secure the headlines. and finally in the result of it all, the announcement of funds. ... If these college commencements were reduced to their former modest simplicity, if representatives of great financial houses and industries were to play a lesser role, the annual increment would probably fall...
Back in their spectacular season form, the 1942 baseball nine buried the St. Mark's batters 17 to 5, under a deluge of hits to chalk up their thirteenth win of the season yesterday on the enemy diamond...