Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chronology of the War in the Pacific, Japan's peak in territorial gains came eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. But even before the attack had reached flood tide, the counterattack had begun...
...usual, some of the grunion hunters cuddled in the shadows, glad to forget the original purpose of their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since the tide often reaches its peak about midnight, grunion parties usually run late and long. Some end in a rousing pre-dawn fish...
With the opening of these centers, the Army will complete the last and most ambitious phase of its vast post-V-E education project. Hundreds of unit command schools have sprung up everywhere. Army-sponsored courses at civilian schools have also made a hit. When the program reaches its peak, more than 1,500,000 troops will be enrolled...
...lean years that followed, Miss Roche wheedled concessions out of other R.M.F. stockholders, staved off bankruptcy with loans from eastern friends (among them UNRRA Director Herbert H. Lehman). She went on paying the highest mine wages in the state, sent most of her salary ($12,000 at the peak) back into the business. Though most fellow Denverites thought her wealthy, she lived in a two-room walkup-except during 1934-37; when she was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...eight years since he started climbing up the Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...