Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more criticism--the climax of the picture is buried under a weak, melodramatic ending which knots a tenuous thread that had been unravelled at the beginning of the story and which only spoils an otherwise well made tapestry. In all, only a hate of animals, an abhorrence of children, or a disgust for faith will ensure you a completely miserable evening...
...swelled to 16,000, stretching for two miles. The crowd became unruly; it pushed over a couple of brick walls, trampled gardens, uprooted hedges. This frenzied performance by normally well-behaved Englishmen was directed to a single-minded purpose: getting tickets for the Chelsea-Arsenal soccer game, the semifinal climax of the Football Association Cup matches. By noon, 50,000 tickets had been sold, and scalpers were offering them for resale at eight times the 2 shillings sixpence (35?) purchase price. Britons were at a World Series fever pitch...
During the last thirty odd years under Shapley's administration, the Observatory has made its greatest strides forward. It was he who established the Agassiz Station at Harvard, the transfer of the southern station from Peru to South Africa, and with the collaboration of Menzel, the installation at Climax, Colorado. The new headquarters building in Cambridge was built under his direction, and provides fireproof housing for the nearly half million plates which contain Harvard's history of the sky for the past sixty years...
With the biggest station in the East and one of the oldest in the South, Harvard would not be complete without boasting the highest observatory in the world. This is at Climax, Colorado, at an elevation of 11,520 feet. This solar station is jointly operated with the University of Colorado, and is equipped with a special telescope which completely eliminates or greatly reduces all the deficiencies of ordinary telescopes for coronal photography...
...Chairman William McChesney Martin and Member M. S. Szymczak voted against Transamerica. The 2-to-2 tie was broken by Rudolph M. Evans, who conducted the hearings and had brought in a finding against Transamerica last June (TIME, June 25). Snapped Transamerica's President Sam Husbands: "A weird climax to a weird proceeding. With two members not participating and two others voting in our favor, we have the amazing spectacle of an adverse decision by a minority of three, with the hearing officer, whose findings were supposed to be under review, casting the deciding vote in his own favor...