Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outfit is the Tank Destroyer Battalion, a fast-moving, hard-hitting team whose job is to go out and hunt tanks, not wait for them in passive defense. Brought to its most efficient peak in the Carolina maneuvers by First Army's wily Lieut. General Hugh Drum, the TD Battalion is already beyond the paper stage. The Army announced that 52 of the battalions had started organization and training, that it was abandoning its more static Tank Defense groups...
...Decided to send a representative to Scranton, Pa. to survey possible defense-plant locations near the hard-coal source, after Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey told him: Even if anthracite mines were at peak production, "there would still be 60,000 too many miners in that area...
...miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near camp can leave Dec. 26, but men living a great distance away get 16 days, and the bulk of this movement will start Dec. 13, before the civilian peak. On that night, solid trainloads of troops will start to highball through the railroad gateways at Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, thence fan out like Panzer divisions to all parts of the Northeast, where nearly half the men live...
Andrew Kaufman '43 will give an illustrated lecture on the Club's first Peruvian expedition, which last August attempted to climb 19,000 foot Mr Huagerruche. He will then discuss organization of the second expedition, aiming to tackle a new and higher peak in the Andes...
Well aware that milers do not reach their peak until they are 25 (Cunningham ran his 4:07.4 when he was 28), track experts predict that up-&-coming MacMitchell may some day run a mile in four minutes flat...