Word: crescendo
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...much-lampooned kitchen fell victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with the muse of science, and needs a bit of rejuvenation along more humane lines. Harvard's great lack today...
...rocket crescendo of Harvard's 1936 hockey fortunes burns out and fades in the night, fans turn their attentions towards the 1937 season and speculate whether it, too, will see a bold niches burned into the tablet of hockey records, or whether the team will fizzle through the season a complete dud. Although a prediction as to the season's outcome is as worthless as a weather prediction for Boston based on a recent snow flurry in Japan, a statement of paper potentialities is not wholly beside the point. And Harvard's potentialities are good...
...China Clipper keeps a diary, he last week had good reason for grumping in it. The proud program of spanning the Pacific, which he began for Pan American Airways with much éclat last autumn (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.), has ever since run more & more askew in a crescendo of frustration which last week attained a new climax. The diary...
...Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo the anarchists' triggerman will fire his revolver. Good shot: Mrs. Lawrence, in the audience at Albert Hall, watching a gunbarrel emerge slowly from a curtain...
...They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life. But the tempo rapidly gets too fast for him; the surrealist dream in which he finds himself becomes a nightmare. Too late he is taken to the refuge of an asylum. The attic has given up its secret...