Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success of Army's courtmen, unbeaten in 26 games since February 1943, hinges on peak physical shape to go with their maximum-sized home court (eight feet longer than Madison Square Garden's). Fast-finishing Army last week whirled by Pittsburgh (71-to-51), then dumped Rochester (79-to-42). Their captain (and football halfback), Dale Hall, leading scorer in the East last season, has flicked in no less than 142 points in ten games, to boost his team's scoring average to 60.9 against their opponents...
EARNINGS The Way Down? As the flood of year-end earnings reports tumbled from the ticker last week, the evidence piled up that U.S. industry had passed the war's profit peak...
...Fort Devens since March, 1944. When Fradd left Harvard last June to assume his new duties, some 300 casualties had come for treatment at Devens, having been released from Lovell and Cushing General Hospitals, and from several other receiving centers in this area. As the list reached a peak of 1,100, these facilities proved inadequate, and thus the new "Convalescent Hospital at Camp Edwards" came into being...
...Freshmen entering last June who have already reported, 32, or 14 percent, enrolled in English or literature combinations, while Economics claims 13.6 percent with 31 concentrators. Comparison with selections of the Class of 1946, peak war group, is striking. This class leaned heavily toward the Bio-chemical Sciences, 18.4 percent of a cross-section of 245 Freshmen electing that field...
...Mellon from the second floor up is charged to the hilt with talk since Fortune brought its western issue out. Larry "christmas Spirit" Jaffa has called a "cal Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...