Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known on the register, attended the school 50 years ago the Harrow community did not entirely approve of him. Some of the masters and the more model boys felt that he was scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps. His marks were only middling and he disliked the classics, then the sine qua non of Harrovian scholarship...
Starting from this base at 4200 feet, Howle Oedel '43 led the climbers on the holiday morning through thick clouds and a gale of wind to the second highest peak in the Presidential Range. On the summit there was already six to eight inches of snow. Only in the afternoon as the hikers started down, did the sun break through and the clouds lift to give a view of the range and a bit of saving warmth to the tired trippers...
Even under the stiff new tax law, U.S. Federal income taxes are still far behind Britain's. For a single person, the U.S. tax starts next year at 10% on net income over $750, runs to a peak of 81% on net income over $5,000,000. The British tax begins at 6% on earned income over $480, rises sharply, virtually confiscates all income over $20,000 (97½%). A U.S. married couple without dependents, earning $4,000 a year, will pay only $249 Federal income tax. In Britain they would...
...long, with a tower which will rise 308 feet; when completed, it will be second in size only to St. Peter's huge basilica in Rome. Nazi bombs have shattered some of its stained glass and scarred its walls, but have left mainly intact this massive red sandstone peak to St. James's Mount above the River Mersey...
...Parliament last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood announced that Britain was spending ?13,000,000 ($52,000,000) a day (or $2,166,666 every hour) on World War II. This was 50% greater than the peak spending of World...