Word: crescendos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago Herbert Sebastian Agar won the Pulitzer Prize for history with The People's Choice. Critical beefing about Pulitzer Prize selections has gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...
...Hitler spoke, the world heard a confused harangue which sounded both conciliatory and belligerent notes. Der Fuhrer again renounced Alsace-Lorraine, he promised that this Sudeten issue constituted his last territorial demand in Europe; and he did not press the minority claims of Hungary and Poland. But to a crescendo of "Sig Heil" he insisted that his present demands be met at once. His listeners know that October 1 is irrevocably...
More harrowing last week to Japanese strategy than any U. S. gunboat could possibly be was the crescendo of Chinese guerrilla activity behind Japanese lines. Tsinan, Shantung's capital, was attacked fiercely by Chinese partisans. Chuyung, 26 miles north of Nanking, was temporarily captured by raiding guerrillas. Most daring guerrilla raid of all was one staged in western Shanghai. Between Nanking and Shanghai were still operating last week no less than 43,000 Chinese regulars in detachments which changed their positions nightly...
...Right, the discovery of oil last spring near Guaranty's El Segundo holdings was no surprise. Talk of a dollar-for-dollar payment to shareholders grew loud as President Murphy leased the property in exchange for a 16% royalty on any oil produced, last week reached a mighty crescendo: the Guaranty's first well produced 2,500 barrels of oil on its first...
Chicago critics who had described Masini's U. S. debut in Lucia di Lammermoor last month, and subsequent appearances in La Gioconda and Tosca as "one long crescendo of excitement," now spoke of him unhesitatingly as "another Caruso." While Chicago music-lovers last week were congratulating each other on this sensation of the musical season, Tenor Masini was being watched by hawk-eyed impresarios from coast to coast...