Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urban real-estate men for years, it became a reality with the 1940 Census figures. Since 1930, while suburbs gained population, most mother cities gained less or none at all (TIME, Sept. 30). Realistic realtors at last concluded that the big cities, relatively speaking, had passed their population peak...
...went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he's doomed.' And when you asked: 'Then why doesn't he attack now?' they replied, with vast Gallic shrugs, 'Undoubtedly because he knows he's doomed anyway.' So, the stalemate on the western front was widely explained as 'Hitler's realization...
...available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...
Before answering the second question, it is well to recall that almost a year ago, at the peak of the tenure controversy, Dean Ferguson stated that the loss of a large number of assistant professors would not seriously affect undergraduate instruction. This was figuring pretty close in Slavic, but at that time it did seem just possible to fill the gap created by Simmons' departure. Over the summer, however, two new developments put the Slavic department out on a limb: a Teaching Fellow who had been counted on to share part of the load left for a job in Washington...
Prosperous in war, the Cramps could not thrive in peace. In 1903 they lost control of their yards to the Morgan-Drexel banks, which later passed it on to the Harrimans. During World War I, Cramp's reached its all-time peak with 11,000 workers, built 46 destroyers and five transports in two years. But in an age of disarmament there was no place for Cramp's. Bidding too desperately for Navy business, it lost $5,741,000 in 1926. The next spring the huge 62-acre yards closed their gates...