Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm kinship she built up for herself and her nation with the Italian people-many of whom, at the beginning, were frankly skeptical about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half of the Italian people knew Clare Luce (normal ambassadorial batting average...
...cloth collars. And many people preferred the substitute and continued to wear them after the War. The Reversible came into being in 1866 and has made paper collars ever since. The Reversible came into being in 1866 and has made paper collars ever since. The business hit its peak between 1870 (when production hit 3,000,000 items monthly) and 1914, but has generally declined since then...
...dipped to 480.67 for a 4.68-point loss. Only steels were consistent gainers, and there the star was Lukens Steel, makers of heavy steel plate for ships. Jumping as much as 12 points a session, it shot 34½ points higher during the week, closed at a new peak of 148 for a better than 300% gain since...
...Harvard Geography Department, begun at the turn of the century, reached its peak of about eight faculty members in 1928 and continued at this level until 1948. In 1948, the geographers here, excepting Professor Whittlesey who held a permanent appointment, were told to look for work elsewhere. The reason given was: "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything...
...talk that was remarkably outspoken for the judgements it delivered on various schools of modern painting criticism, Shahn stated that the value of man resides in his conscious mastery of life, in intellect and humanity at its highest peak. He felt symbolism went too far in the direction of automaticism where the artist loses control to his subconscious and amorphous mind...