Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Hall was originally the home of a students' dining co-operative, and at its peak in 1898, fed 1,320 men three meals a day. As the center of University life moved south towards the Charles, however, the co-op became less popular and closed in 1925. From that date until the outbreak of the war the hall was seldom used...
...Allied forces, too, had fought far better than in the Tunisian campaign, had reached a new peak of efficiency in their cooperation. The U.S. forces in particular showed, at Troina, at Randazzo and in their amphibious flanking movements on the northern coast, that they could take the best the Germans had to offer in the worst terrain they had yet seen, terrain in which their advantage in numbers hardly counted because large forces could not be brought into action...
Though Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service announced last week that infantile paralysis, nearing its seasonal peak, is subsiding nationally, the disease has almost reached the epidemic stage in the U.S. The nationwide total since Jan. 1 is 2,753 cases, more than double the figure for the same period last year. Analysis of the half-year situation shows the present total to be higher for the same period than any year since...
...President had also brought home forcibly, to a nation which had neglected the political implications of its Army, the new facts of American political life. The Grand Army of the Republic, with only about 400,000 members at peak, influenced every major election for 20 years. The American Legion, with 1,000,000 members, is still a potent force in molding U.S. life...
...Summer session enrollment is down to about 7,000-half its 1931 peak...