Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Plymouth, Studebaker, Oldsmobile, Hudson, Willys and others showed the trade their new models. But at peak of the ballyhoo, Ward's soberly announced: "The automobile industry will do well to uncover in the model year ahead a volume of business as good as that in the model year just concluded." Translation: "Things don't look so hot." Ward's reasons: lower anticipated public buying because of lower profits, higher taxes, reduced auto exports, conscription, higher car prices (an exception: Nash, which lowered prices on expectations of larger output), general uncertainty...
Visitors who crowded the Beaux-Arts Gallery had to admit that Portugal, during its peak century and a half, had been almost as good at painting as it was at exploring. Connoisseurs found these primitives strongly influenced by the Flemish school founded about 1410 by famed Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases...
...weather always comes up on the other side of that mountain. The White cabin stands at 9,000 ft. above sea level; Longs Peak rises in its square-topped majesty 5,255 ft. above that; and north and south the peaks of the Rockies repeat like mirrored reflections in the depthless blue air -the Never Summer Range on the Continental Divide, Mount Alice and Flattop, Estes Cone and Specimen, Thunderbolt, Mummy, Sawtooth and Nimbus-some of the more than 10,000-ft. mountains that lie within the Park and give it the peaceful air of being...
...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...
Roped together, Boyer and Miss Cedarquist got to within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more...