Word: crescendos
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...final crescendo to its year's record the Council looked into the method of admission into the Houses immediately after the announcement that almost half of the Freshman applicants were rejected. It suggested that the University regulate the size, of incoming Freshman classes and left to next year's Council the task of carrying on the investigation. The consistent repetition of "investigation" within these lines is excellent proof of the Council's alertness; no student can do other than hope its example will become a precedent...
...soberly entered the Royal Box. Queen Elizabeth, appearing in powder blue, greeted Queen Mary with a kiss on both cheeks. Behind steeped the Dukes & Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, and a set of silk-toppered plainclothesmen. From far & near burst a crescendo of cheers from some 250,000 throats. Thus heralded was George VI's first arrival at Epsom Downs as King, to view the 157-year-old racing classic founded by the 12th Earl of Derby...
...Affaires Eric C. Wendelin, back from bloody Madrid last week to a desk job in the State Department: "The citizens of Madrid pride themselves on doing 'business as usual' even during air raids and attacks. Before I left about one-third of Madrid had been destroyed. The crescendo of artillery fire never let up. The rumble of guns shattered our sleep-but we got used to it. In Madrid you get accustomed to almost everything...
...same restrained exoticism still appears. Each of the stories is good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item, "I said my Penance" by Peul Clark...
...present plight. When the chaplain comes toward him in the fog, anxious to convince him that the pardon is authentic, Eddie shoots him. The chaplain stays on his feet long enough to call, "I'm not hit. Open the gates." Thus is the structure-laid for a crescendo seldom excelled in hoodlum stories since Public Enemy. Within its tighter limits You Only Live Once has a signature of realism no less stark and confident than the famed Warner Bros, story. It presents in addition its own modest problem in sociology: has the State a right to punish...