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There could not have been in the House of Commons a single member who did not know that this opening was a bland reversal of the facts-yet so bold and sweeping that it rose not to the crescendo of a lie but to that of the most convincing and comfortable assurance which a Prime Minister could feel it his awful duty to make. Mr. Baldwin went on to tell how these two perfect friends had confided to each other that the one wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson and the other, while not venturing to advise, still less to blame...
...President is, appropriately, the Crescendo of Poissonality. He has the most finished technique. You would hardly know it was a technique, but for the occasional revealing split second. Opinions may differ as to the secondary qualities required in a President of the United States, but undoubtedly the first is Poissonality. Such Poissonality, swollen by its own success, has its dangers. Let us hope Roosevelt will not fall for it himself...
Having delivered a remarkable crescendo of pleasing facts & figures for nearly a year, U. S. Business had apparently decided to make a thoroughgoing reappraisal of the business outlook. Trade statistics were at Recovery highs. Corporate earnings for the March quarter were impressive, the first 108 companies to report showing a 43.5% average increase in profits over the same period last year. But here & there first quarter results failed to justify the hopes expressed in high prices for their stocks. And with the normal spring rise in business approaching a peak, both businessmen and speculators were, as usual, concerned with neither...
...second game Harvard secured a three-run lead in the first two frames which clinched the issue from the very start. Tittmann's able performance held the enemy to three hits, while the Crimson base-runners staged a five-run crescendo in the sixth to amass a final total of 10 tallies...
Every winter U. S. science formally acclaims outstanding work in the halls of learning and the laboratories of industry. Honors awarded since the midwinter crescendo of salutes (TIME, Feb. 10) included the following...