Word: crescendo
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...Bishop of Winchester. His text, Matthew 4:17, declared the "imminence of the Kingdom of God." His theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...
Political Results. The President's decision is sure to arouse Democratic criticism, which should rise in crescendo as the Congressional elections next year approach-especially if the retail price of sugar should increase...
...peered eagerly through the after-dinner smoke. The game old Admiral was evidently about to utter things even more provocative than his recent diagnosis of women as the cause of all war. The second cigars had nearly expired when the Admiral's reedy voice attacked his concluding crescendo : "We won the War. though by the narrowest possible margin. But already we are confronted with another danger at least as great, the pacifist movement. If the men and women of this Nation do not get together and stop that movement, our National security will soon become National peril, such...
...another victory: the President decided to appoint John Van Antwerp MacMurray to be Minister to China.* Chinese bands, long silent, are beginning to play the tunes of nationalism; the new minister must have a delicate ear, must be a sympathetic critic. Two tunes, in particular, are rising to a crescendo of protest against "foreign domination...
...died about an hour before, so quickly that he had not had time to summon aid. Thus ended his career-a career that began in a family of distinction and ended at a time when, although he had suffered a temporary political setback, it was still apparently on the crescendo. He came from the family of "Harvester" McCormicks. The three members of the family in the generation which first attained fame were Cyrus, William and Leander. Cyrus was father of Cyrus II as well as Harold F. (who married Edith Rockefeller and, later, Ganna Walska and is the father...