Word: windup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going on since June, with conventions of scholars entertained and entertaining at scores of minor celebrations staged by various schools and departments. That the Tercentenary was a prime academic festival not even Josiah Quincy could deny. In the grand windup last week, however, Harvard's sons appropriated the second and liveliest of the three concluding Tercentenary days...
Despite the prospect of abolition for the sport, there are now 60 Yardlings hard at work, with still more expected at the final windup of fall sports...
...city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery comeback was released by Dr. David M. Steele, rector emeritus of swank Episcopal Church of St. Luke & the Epiphany in rich, Republican Philadelphia. His windup: "The only help I can render you or the American people is to vote for the next Republican candidate who, by the grace of God, shall be nominated...
Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
Chicago Tribune first jolted its readers with remarkably clear continuity pictures of Golden Gloves boxers in action, followed with a strip of Pitcher Dizzy Dean from windup to finish. Cameraddicts knew that no ordinary motion picture film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...