Word: climax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the little (pop. 1,500) mountain town of Rifle, Colo, last week, a five-year-old federal experiment reached an exciting climax. The Bureau of Mines announced that in its test plant it had produced oil from oil shale at a cost of $2 to $2.50 a barrel, comparable to the cost of petroleum pumped from the ground in east Texas. "We're over the hill now," crowed Plant Superintendent Boyd Guthrie. "We have the processes and the know-how . . . We're positive we can produce equal or better products than you can get from petroleum...
Joint instruction brought this situation to a climax, though it had cropped up before the war. Drama groups, for instance, had often become engaged in tiffs about the use of Radcliffe girls in their plays, though generally it was Radcliffe officials with whom they had to deal. And a short-lived rival of the CRIMSON, The Harvard Journal, which was founded in 1934, had over a dozen Radcliffe members on its staff. It had to bargain with Radcliffe officialdom to get these members, but it never sought official Harvard approval and Harvard officials never interfered. Today, an organization seeking Radcliffe...
Bullfight. The sense of an approaching climax kept feelings high. Liberals flocked to Carrera Septima, Bogota's main street, and defied the government ban on demonstrations by gibing at the police and cheering for their party. One enthusiast amused the crowd by making bullfight passes with his coat at a clumsy young policeman charging him with a rifle butt. The cop finally fired from the hip into the air; the torero and his aficionados fled...
...reached the climax of Hiroshima. Dr. Bush thumbs through the catalogue of miraculous instruments of World War II: radar, the eye which helped save Britain during the Nazis' all-out bombing campaign; sonar, the underwater ear which helped break the Nazis' almost-decisive U-boat campaign; missiles, such as the V-i which "might well have stopped the [Normandy] invasion"; rocket-firing bazookas which can stop tanks; recoilless guns which can be carried by two men and have the power of 75-mm. howitzers...
...great climax game came in 1931, when Albie Booth, who had been beaten by Harvard in the two previous years, finally gained revenge when he dropkicked a 22-yard field goal with only three minutes left to play to win for Yale, 3 to 0. It was Harvard's only setback of the season and the Crimson last a golden opportunity to win the eastern championship for the first time since...