Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district correspondent for seven years from Toronto to Vancouver, I sent off an account of their stop at Field near the crest of the Rockies. They had motored from Banff to Lake Louise, to Field, where their train awaited them, over one of the most spectacular drives in the world...
...Staff, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white-plumed hat took the salute while tanks, armored cars, caterpillar trucks, motorized antiaircraft units whirled past in the glare of searchlights...
...spectacular mile-long parade of Harvard alumni to the Stadium, led by the twenty-fifth reunion class, will start at 1:30 p.m. Most of the representatives of the fifty classes which have made plans for reunions in Class Day week will be in this parade, the classes which are twenty, fifteen, ten, six, and three years out of college customarily wearing the unique costumes which they have adopted...
...Alaska's most spectacular volcanic display in more than a decade, the crater vomited flame to a height of 1,500 feet, acrid smoke and hot ash to a distance of five or six miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be lighted in the daytime. The earth rumbled ceaselessly. Coast Guard commanders in the Bering Sea reported ashes falling 35 miles from the mountain, volcanic dust 100 miles away. In Unalaska, 350 miles from the volcano, chandeliers shook...
...with something of a thrill. In addition, it was enough to give them an acute inferiority complex enough to convince them that they went out with clay pipes instead of silver spoons. Most Harvard graduates, infers Mr. Tunis, must have the fate of Broadway's current Harvard man-the spectacular specimen in "The Priterose Path...