Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually entirely responsible for a fumble that may cost the game. From the romantic point of view there is the objection that one of the thrills of the game has been removed, although this is somewhat offset by the opinion of other authorities that a more open and spectacular game of double and triple passing will result...
...Crack Reporter Owen of the Byrd Expedition this seemed more than an exciting episode. He wrote it up for the civilized world as a spectacular Heroism, with the following ingredients...
...Harvard photographs have proved to be the most prolific source for the discovery of variable stars, and also of the spectacular objects known as new stars or novae. Thus, 70 percent of the 7000 stars known to vary in brightness, and 67 percent of the 52 new stars which have flashed out since 1885, have been discovered at Harvard from observations of these photographs. And before 1885 few objects of either kind were known...
...Spectra Spectacular...
...that a scientific man believes in evolution, but just because newspapers want exciting headlines is no excuse for misconstruing what a scientist really does say. The press can do its best for the progress of science by emphasizing the dominant truth of its facts rather than making use of spectacular but misleading flourishes...