Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration had made mistakes on the food front. He promised specific help to farmers: 1) more machinery, 2) deferment of 3,000,000 farm laborers from the draft this year, 3) a "land army" of students, women, part-time workers, 4) temporary Army furloughs, to help out at peak periods. But at last Franklin Roosevelt had been really prodded by a domestic defeat, was really looking for a new strategy...
Idealistic Greeks thought otherwise. To them, human reason, wisdom, was the highest peak that man could reach. But, says Dr. Niebuhr, this belief did not help them to fulfill themselves in the everyday things of life...
Something For the Boys. Ethel Merman at her peak in musicomedy at its peppiest (TIME...
...Peak employment of the Project was in March 1936, when the payroll numbered 7,535. The Project included beached newsmen, unpublished poets and novelists, high-school teachers, graduates of schools of journalism who had never held jobs, a great crowd of people who had always "wanted" to write...
...bomber plant. The 975-acre plant was scheduled to start rolling out bombers last summer, was popularly supposed to produce a bomber an hour eventually. But WPB now admitted: "There have been many disappointments in connection with the Willow Run operation, and the plant, even now, is far from peak production...