Word: peak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...frenzied girl fans hit their emotional peak in 1930 at her last London play, Let Us Be Gay. They waited in line for 36 hours to get in. When the doors opened, police cordons crumbled under a wild stampede, and some who had been first in line picked themselves up to find the theater full. Halfway through the show they stormed, 100 strong, into the lobby, yelling and screaming, until the bobbies rallied to throw them back...
Trade Taper. Despite mounting EGA shipments, U.S. exports dropped in September for the third straight month to $926,500,000, the lowest point in nearly two years, and $496,400,000 below their postwar peak. Imports were down also...
This sort of stuff is a tradition at Harvard-Yale football games that not even prohibition could spoil. Although the WTCU will tell you that nobody could get hold of liquor in those days, old alumni insist that Stadium swizzhing never reached its peak until the 1920's. The CRIMSON of 1927 reported that "today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking indoors...
...behold!" exclaimed the Sage of the Age. "Sotear, but don't Phillip your glass any more. Frank-ly, you've had too much liquor and, e-Naffziger-ettes. Furse I can see, Fasano reason why you Gant see my point. McAfee-lings are hurt and McGrath has reached its peak...
...full squad of freshman football players with a running and passing attack at its season's peak has its payoff game against Yale this afternoon at Soldiers Field. And as in the case of most Crimson-Eli clashes, only one pre-game appraisal is possible: anything can happen...