Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
Doyle, 32 years younger than Cruikshank, reached his peak of delicacy and wit at 15, with the drawings for Dick Doyle's Journal and his letters to his father. When he was 19 "Dickie" went to work for the new, liberal magazine Punch, spiking the text with whimsical capital initials and borders of capering gnomes interspersed with knights in grinning visors. His Punch cover has survived to the present day, but Dickie himself, furious at Punch's antipapal policy, resigned in 1850 and turned to book illustrations which seldom matched his Punching...
Many a tear has been shed, especially by small businessmen, over the hard lot of new enterprises. But last week the Department of Commerce reported that the number of U.S. business firms rose by 200,000 in 1947 to a peak of 3,870,000. This was 14% above the previous alltime total (in September 1941). The rate of increase was on the decline. Reason: "the gradual disappearance of the more obvious opportunities for new enterprises which existed at war's end in construction and manufacturing...
...symbolizes Dartmouth's reckless, bruising, headline-hunting attack, it is beefy defenseman George Pulliam. He also represents its weakness, if that's what you want to call it. Frequently, like a steam engine, the Indians do not function at peak efficiency, because their one and two-man attacks leave a lot of men standing around and their insistence on taking the puck up themselves rather than passing it up front consumes precious seconds...
...industry was producing more than ever before. Crude oil production was running at the rate of 5,300,000 barrels a day, an alltime record, well above peak wartime production of 4,700,000 barrels daily...