Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both team's are at their peak for the game, with Coach Jack MacDonald's men hitting a season's high with Wednesday's 4-1 victory over Brown. Earlier in the year, Yale beat the Bruins by the exact same score; so, on comparative scores the game should be rather even...
Republicans now control 26 states, with a population of 85,649,790 and an electoral college vote of 342. In short, the G.O.P. is approaching the strength of the peak year 1928-it has almost everything but the Presidency...
...German demolition and mining had reached a new peak of thoroughness. Communications behind the enemy front, left usable by Allied air attack, were being systematically destroyed. A report from Allied headquarters noted that the Nazis in the east had blown up 13 roads and rail bridges, leaving a minimum passage for retreat, along the Adriatic coast to Pescara, 40 miles ahead of the Eighth Army...
Miss Smith returned after intermission to give a group of songs with only piano accompaniment. Although showing a decided weakness on her endings and perhaps a related huskiness on her lower notes, Miss Smith truly hit her peak in the Gershwin songs where her full soprano was able to unbosom itself...
...retailer or chain that never carried higher-priced goods before is high & dry on the pyramid's peak. If a J. C. Penney store's top dress price last year was $5.98, and if there are none made today to sell at that low a price, Penney can only stop selling dresses...