Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patterson's murder was the climax of a long tradition of violence that has touched both hoodlums and the respectable families on upper-class Summerville Road. Hoyt Shepherd, onetime casino owner and political boss, has been attacked and wounded, homes have been bombed, Lawyer Patterson's office was once set afire, and members of the Russell Betterment Association have been beaten on the street...
Another foray into national politics came as a climax to his long-standing protest against the Sacco-Vanzetti decision. On the 20th anniversary of the execution, in 1947, Schlesinger presented a plaque honoring the pair to the Governor of Massachusetts, requesting that they be honored in the same manner as Roger Williams and Ann Hutchins. The Governor refused to accept...
...Leroy Anderson '29 who brought the second day of 25th reunion to a boisterous climax. Taking the baton after the intermission, he led "Fair Harvard" and nine of his own arrangements, including two encores. When he tried to sit down and rest between numbers, his classmates' applause refused to allow...
...College would have to be recessed because of increasing cases of influenza, but the big news of the opening year was that Coach Arnold Horween '29 would return to lead the football team toward another highly successful year. The announcement gave further encouragement that 1929 would prove a fitting climax to the Roaring Twenties...
Competitive Punch. In keeping with the times, penny uranium stocks have had a boom all their own (TIME, April 5). And on the Big Board such companies as Vanadium Corp. (up 83%) and Climax Molybdenum (up 44%) have risen as they have got into the uranium business. Other big gainers: oil and rubber (up 37%), insurance (up 40%), office equipment (up 43%). Of 35 major stock groups, only the tobaccos have declined since September, and their 16% drop can be traced directly to the lung-cancer scare...