Word: heydays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...present heyday of high pressure University dining halls where diners are dealt with the speed of a card simile, leisure and elegance are otter deemed obstructions to progress. In this utilitarian atmosphere, the Lowell House High Table, a very elegant and leisurely formal dinner of the House's master, tutors, and invited Seniors (chosen in rotation) comes as a curious anomaly...
...York and New Jersey, his swaddling clothes might be less than clean, but still he is there. Mayors, executives, and union officials, some with names reminiscent of the innocent's heyday, Prohibition, have joined in a prolonged chorus of pained right-cousness...
Legend has far outlived the historic facts. The last Communist group in the University, the American Youth for Democracy, sputtered and died four years ago. The thirties were their heyday, and if any Red cells do meet secretly today, they must surely gaze wistfully back to that...
...President. As Ike Eisenhower campaigned through Iowa in mid-September, he drew the biggest political crowds the state had seen since Franklin Roosevelt's heyday. Stevenson plans one speech in the state-at Fort Dodge...
...seventies, 90% of China's imports came from Britain, British India and Hong Kong, and 70% of China's exports were going to British ports. But the heyday of the British merchants began after the Suez Canal was opened, with steam packets pushing the sailing clippers off the seas. It lasted until the Sino-Japanese War, which followed by World War II, shook loose the British grip on China. But in 1946 Jardine's had regained 50% of the tea trade...