Word: spectacularly
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Erwin Rudolph is a onetime Cleveland office boy who wasted so much time in billiard rooms from 1910 onwards that he became one of the world's great billiard players. Never sensational as an office boy, he is spectacular, Napoleonic with a cue. He takes daring chances and shoots so fast the balls hardly have time to stop rolling after one shot before he is set for the next. Last year he ran out a game in a world's championship in 32 minutes. Only one man in the world could hope to beat...
...Florence H., a Wartime U. S. freighter named for the wife of U. S. Shipping Board Chairman Edward Nash Hurley. The Florence H. sank in 1918 with a cargo of 5,000 tons of guncotton and steel, remained till last week a menace to French coastal navigation. So spectacular have been the Artiglio's successes that a French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing, taking notes. Overboard went the Artiglio's two chief divers, Alberto Gianni and S. Francesci. After them were lowered special mines which were intended to blow up the hulk of the Florence H. Suddenly...
Yale graduates. While in college they led cheers, edited papers, rowed, played hockey, managed musical clubs and were otherwise popular and prominent: Since college days, by far the most spectacular has been William Averell Harriman, able, active son of the late great Edward Henry Harriman-who with $400,000,000 at his command controlled 60,000 miles of railroad, built up Union Pacific, fought the memorable battle with James Jerome Hill over Northern Pacific...
Horween has made his mark on Soldiers Field. His teams, it is true, have met with a variance of fortune, but he has clearly demonstrated that a head coach does not necessarily have to be a slave driver, and that in spite of spectacular gate receipts and modern front page publicity, the elements which originally made football a sport for the player can be retained. The sanity which he has shown in the handling of his men has made for a healthier situation on the Harvard field, and he has been a fine influence on intercollegiate football in general...
Best daily news of Soviet Russia is cabled by Walter Duranty of the New York Times residing in Moscow. Best news raids into Russia have been made by Miss Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) and H. R. Knickerbocker, both for the New York Evening Post.* But the most spectacular recent bit of U. S. newswork in Red Russia was the extraction from Soviet "Dictator" Josef Stalin of the first interview he has ever granted to the Occidental Press (TIME, Dec. 1). Hero of this scoop was Correspondent Eugene Lyons of the United Press. Last week the United Press proudly...