Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later the combination of the entrenched machine-gun and the barbed-wire entanglement, tilted the balance between the defense and the offense markedly in favor of the former. The great stabilized fronts of 1914-18 seemed to emphasize this growing power of the defense. . . . The idea reached its peak in the later writings of Liddell Hart, at one time recognized as the leading British military critic and in his early years an outstanding advocate of the offensive principle of surprise. I do not, of course, mean that any military men have ever given up the principle of the offensive...
...visible far beyond the Chicago and Kansas City grain pits, fluttered over the whole U. S. economy. Because Latin America could no longer sell to Europe, its purchases in the U. S. fell off by $10,000,000 as early as April, have remained well under the first-quarter peak. Ecuador, for lack of foreign exchange, last week had to duck out of her reciprocal trade agreement and cut some imports by 50%. The Pan American Coffee Conference, meeting in Manhattan last week, tried to decide what to do with 924,000,000 lb. of coffee that used...
...Ohio extricated itself from the dilemma. Proudly announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600...
TIME'S article (May 27) on Partisan Review contained an erroneous implication in regard to my approach as a critic which I should like to correct. You wrote that "at the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases." Had you examined my articles in the magazine you would have seen that I have expressed pleasure in a great many types of art, from Picasso, Hartung, Demuth, and American abstract painters to certain operas of Strauss and the dancing of Shankar. I should judge that perhaps 80% of my articles have been laudatory (favorable...
Louisiana Purchase is a good musicomedy-smooth, spirited, tuneful. It does not, however, represent most of its contributors at their peak. Some of Berlin's music, especially the title song and It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow, is thoroughly attractive, and some of his lyrics are amusing; but Louisiana Purchase does not show the dazzling Berlin of As Thousands Cheer. Ryskind's book is lively enough, but as political satire it is miles below Of Thee I Sing. Balanchine's ballets are skillful but not startling...