Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush hour. In the case of supper, while the line is at its heaviest when the doors open at 5:30 o'clock, the rush has been created by just such an attempt, on a universal basis, at arriving when nobody else is eating But at breakfast, when the peak is at 8:30 o'clock, lines could be shortened considerably if the tendency to get up as late as possible was overcome by a hardly few. Similarly, lunch lines are at their longest at 12:15 and 1:15 o'clock, directly after class breaks, while lines between...
They stood in silent admiration for several minutes, their eyes sweeping the large room, and then gathered for a brief, hardly audible discussion. "And just to think," one Yardling intoned to his companion, not unlike stout Balboa, upon a peak at Darien, "all those fellows are Harvard...
...Partly a statistical illusion, because 1 ) the average age has increased, and diabetes is largely a disease of middle age; 2) deaths formerly attributed to heart disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. are now correctly diagnosed as caused primarily by diabetes. The U.S. diabetes death rate hit its peak in 1940, dropped off slightly during wartime when overeating was less prevalent...
...annual fall flurry of social activities around Phillips Brooks House for Freshmen and new veterans will open Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock with an open house for all in the PBH lounge, continue with an activities meeting Tuesday evening, and hits its peak with three Harvard-Radcliffe teas now scheduled for Monday, September 30, Wednesday, October 2, and Friday, October...
...there any hope that the rise in costs would stop. Commodity prices, up 22% since the end of the war. were still soaring. Labor efficiency was down (see Autos) and another wave of raises all around-which most businessmen expected-would boost the labor cost still more. In short, peak production alone did not promise the profits which stock buyers had been betting...