Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Gearhart, tavern worker, and Robert Pearson, railroad-yard checker, watched the big plane level off at one of the many shadowy knobs dotting Ensign Flat, a plateau east of the city. The plane flew past Ensign Peak. Any moment now Pilot Don Brown should bank, continue his half circle, sail in from the south. He didn...
This, says angry Mr. Spigelman, means two things: 1) ballooning costs keep war production from reaching its real peak; 2) after the war, "a mighty alliance of all the incompetents" will demand continued Government protection for uneconomic wartime habits. If this comes to pass, the U.S. will find itself in "the most rigid and closed of socialisms . . . a tyranny of collective incompetence at least as disastrous as the nineteenth century tyranny of unbridled competence...
Lewis M. Thompson (the copilot) gave it more power as I nosed it down at the peak of each bounce and pulled back as we hit the swells and waves, easing the blow and still increasing air speed...
...evolution from the patrician '205 to the leggy '403 (see cut), shows a sharp decline in popularity. > Color photography, once thought to spell the doom of hand-painted illustration, runs neck & neck with its rival. >The humorous cartoon ad ("Quick. Henry, the Flit!", etc.), which reached a peak in the middle '303, is on the way down...
...short time, the cultural leadership of the Western world. Flemish painters and musicians ranged over Europe with the pomp of diplomats, asked high prices from competing princes and even taught a lesson or two to the artists of the budding Italian Renaissance. Today the finest mementos of Flanders' peak century are the small paintings, done with the detail of miniatures that are known to museums and collectors as "Flemish primitives...