Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Harvard Square's tutoring schools reached a peak of effectiveness in sabotaging the University's educational system. The College, through shortcomings of its own, had opened the door a crack for them, but with high-pressure business tactics they forced it wide, bursting in all their viciousness upon the Harvard scene. A year of attack could not be expected to climinate them, entrenched as they were. But today they are not the same as they used to be: two of them have closed, and most of the rest are not making as much this year as last...
...shawl, two white pillows and an Army blanket (which he sometimes wore like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted to memorize. Thus read, it would join his vast store from the Bible, Shakespeare, Britain's Burke and Fox and Pitt, Massachusetts...
...superior expression on the face of the bears was noticeable when the Federal Reserve Board reported that although its December index of production was higher than for any month in history (thanks mostly to the durable goods industries), January production, instead of rising, was slipping from the peak. This was a sure indication that its index for January would be down from December's (seasonally adjusted) level...
Meantime, the steel production rate was down to 82.2% from its pre-Christmas high of 94.4%. The composite price of scrap, a major barometer of steel, fell back from the war-boom peak of $22.50 a ton to $17.67-the mills were loaded, were not buying any more...
Basso Kipnis decided to become a U. S. citizen and marry a U. S. woman, settled in Chicago. During the Chicago Opera's peak years under Impresario Mary Garden, Kipnis was one of its brightest stars. When the Chicago Opera folded in 1932, opera fans thought New York's Metropolitan would salvage Basso Kipnis from the wreck. Nearly every European opera house (including Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festival) rushed to sign up Kipnis, but the Met did not join the rush...