Word: climax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long training, the tense waiting, the terrible hours preceding the second battle of the Marne when the fate of civilization and the Allied cause hung in the balance are all described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division...
Facilities for indoor exercise at the University expand today with the opening of the new Freshman Athletic Building. This marks the climax of the plans this fall of the Department of Physical Training at the University, which so far have resulted in the general reorganization of Freshman athletic facilities and the construction of 11 new squash courts in Randolph Gymnasium...
...part of Primerose, depicts excellently the gay pretence of a serious-minded girl who realizes and hates the wicked and idle life of her father's castle. Her love with Pierre de Lancrey, her confession to her godmother and uncle, and a denoument of momentous pathos following the climax of her meeting with Pierre, are the themes around which the story is built...
Indifferent cheering and poor singing marked the University's effort to support its team against Brown last Saturday. As a climax to the somewhat "gauche" and enervating exhibition, the Crimson band broke in with a song, while their opponents were still rendering their first...
...thing that has made this a possibility, --the spirit of a class which has collected from its members the sum of $550 wherewith to send its crew to the Severn. Nor is this the first time that the Freshmen have shown interest in their major sports. At the climax of the hockey season they offered to supply the funds to send their team to New York for the Yale and Princeton games, since those universities found it impracticable to have their freshmen make the trip to Cambridge. Unfortunately for the success of their zealous support those games were cancelled...