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There follows a terrific fortissimo "Jersualem" in all voices, which is followed by a gradual diminuendo as the tenors continue their nervous melody, the baritones subside down the scale, and the basses chant repeatedly an ever-quieter "Jerusalem." This structure is typical of the whole piece-rapid crescendos, gradual diminuendos, sudden shouts, and nervous bits of melody...
...Quieter investigation by Correspondent Matthews cleared up many other points about this greatest battle of the war. Because Rightist planes won and kept control of the air throughout the battle, there had been no reports to contradict Franco's claims and for a week the press had been misled into believing that most of Teruel had been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with...
...married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...
...Dean, young petty officer on the cruiser Baton Rouge, was a Texas-born, square-faced, blue-eyed, accomplished sailor who liked "rough weather and lots of hell." In quieter moments he wrote for adventure magazines, read everything from Kipling to Marcus Aurelius. Coming into Bremerton Navy Yard on April 6, 1917, having known since the Baton Rouge left Mexico that war was not far off, Rex had already got himself straight about his own part in it. Uncle Sam was "Uncle Sucker." From now on you only pretended the Allies were in the right, and killed and got killed automatically...
...Zurich, set up a school for exercises at Potsdam. By-&-by she had similar schools all over Germany and in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands. She became the best known physical culturist south of Sweden. Eventually she returned to the U. S. and. though her vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz, Pa.) and at Yale. Her main U. S. school is a large, sunny room filled with full-length mirrors...