Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farnsworth pointed out that admissions to Stillman Infirmary reached a 30-year low of 1,043 last year. "However, the problem of infectious mononucleosis continues to be annoying and frustrating," he continued. A peak of 89 cases was recorded last year...
Made far more readable since then, but still the bane of thousands of music students, and still printing articles like "A Thought for the Piano Tuner," Etude by last fall was badly out of tune. Despite a peak circulation of 250,000 in 1919, Etude had been carried at a loss for some 30 years on the books of Presser's highbrow Bryn Mawr music publishing firm (owned since Presser's death in 1925 by the Presser Foundation, which also operates a home for aged music teachers...
Most of the reason for Lukens Steel's sudden prosperity was the very uniqueness that had kept it unobtrusive. A nonintegrated producer that purchases pig iron and scrap for its twelve open-hearth furnaces, it specialized in heavy steel plate, therefore cashed in on the peak demand for heavy plate caused largely by the oil tanker boom...
...Yarborough campaign headquarters in Austin, his supporters whooped it up as the good news came in, reached their peak when they read a congratulatory telegram from Songstresses Patience and Prudence, whose Texan uncles helped Senator-elect Yarborough's campaign. They talked of sending off a wire to conservative Democrat Daniel, who is no Yarborough fan, simply quoting that line from the P. and P. hit record: "So long my honey, goodbye my dear, gonna get along without...
...will be planted this year by farmers, who are seeding 334 million acres v. 346 million last year. But 3.5% cut is only half what Department of Agriculture expected from the soil-bank plan, and recent increases in productivity per acre may keep output at same granary-bursting peak...