Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they decided to put on a show of strength, invited the public (in newspaper ads) to come to an initiation party. About 2,000 responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...
...Received a recommendation from the joint committee headed by Virginia's Harry Byrd that the federal payroll be reduced by 2,000,000 people from its V-J day peak...
...many Americans, Alaska is a remote, glacial wasteland remembered vaguely as: 1) a sprawling territory, twice the size of Texas, which the U.S. acquired from Russia in a forgotten real-estate deal; 2) the site of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley (20,464 feet); 3) home ground of Robert Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush...
...Hear You Talking. The hostel usually housed an average of ten regulars (mostly U.S. and British), but at peak periods as many as 40 crowded into its thin-walled cubicles. Telephone conversations were communal; men and women loafed, worked, ate and drank together in what one correspondent described as "spiritual and gossipy incest...
This week the number of unfilled applications for housing for married students passed the 1,100 mark. Officials of the University Housing Authority at Straus Hall estimate that by June the figure will rise to 2,500 and hit a peak of 3,000 in September. The gravity of the problem is obvious; these statistics mean that close to half of the married veterans at the University will be forced into quarters which cannot be considered adequate, and their ability to study efficiently must suffer as a result. At the same time, all expectations that the housing squeeze would straighten...