Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specially trained Canadians, one British and five American observers-clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden sleds in tandem, followed. The base...
...Boise, Idaho, vanished into the stormy dark over Wyoming. Next day, search-plane pilots glimpsed a ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...
...Newcomer. Australia had reason to be cocky. Though brilliant Adrian Quist was a little past his peak and suffering from recurrent asthma, two-fisted Jack Bromwich was better than ever. Aussie ace in the hole: a 24-year-old wonder who sometimes plays barefoot, named Dennis ("Dinny") Pails...
College enrollment will hit a post-war peak of approximately 2700 by the end of mid-year registration for students in residence, figures revised downward since Friday by the Registrar's office showed early yesterday. More than 1400 men who were in the College during the fall term are expected to tie through Mem Hall's alleys between 9 and 5 o'clock today...
This week Lewis Clark led his men back to work. Housewives heaved a sigh of relief. So did farmers-the hog run, stopped at its peak, had backed up all over the Midwest, and grain for feeding was running low. So, too, did Lewis Clark's union...