Word: splashingly
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...Monarch of Bermuda, whirling up over the dawn-lit horizon, was most effective. She skidded up to the Morro Castle like a polo pony, wheeled and dropped four of her boats with one splash before losing headway. The Monarch, Captain Albert R. Francis commanding, picked up 71 people. With less finesse, the City of Savannah rescued 65, the Andrea S. Luckenbach 21. Also on the scene was the Dollar Liner President Cleveland. She arrived at 6:20 a. m., lowered no boats until 7:08. She resumed her voyage at 8:03 without having saved a single soul...
Last week the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, celebrating its 80th birthday, held a drawing for cash prizes, proposed to publicize the winners in a splash of goodwill advertising. Winner of the $1,000 capital prize: Mildred Rosebud Baturin. Ruefully the Patriot paid $1,000 to Mildred Rosebud Baturin, associate society editor of the rival Harrisburg Telegraph...
...every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb, a cat whipping over in midair...
...years in highest Moscow circles for some move to put a better face on the tyranny of ruling 147,000,000 Russians by means of a secret police of unlimited terroristic power. Last week Comrade Litvinoff got his way and dispatches from Moscow led U. S. headline-writers to splash out with SOVIET ABOLISHES ITS SECRET POLICE...
...tails quiver in the air. The mako soars up stiff as a poker. For a moment it hangs motionless at 20 or 30 ft., blue of back, white of belly; its great pectoral fins spread wide. Then it flips over, falls back broadside to the sea with the splash of a wrecked airplane...