Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly as it does that whole great clutter of heavy gilt frames, dusty plush draperies and ornate grandeurs that marked his vanished era. It is only 30 years since Sargent died, half a century since the Edwardian peak of his fame; yet the interval can hardly be measured by years alone. Just how far and fast fashions have changed since Sargent's day could best be seen this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating the centennial of the painter's birth with...
...coldest spot in the northeast was on its highest peak, Mt. Washington, which rears up 6,300 feet in the Presidential Range in New Hampshire...
...stayed cold and windy all day on the peak...
Five thousand may turn out to be too big or too small, but it seems to me a reasonable if generous estimate of the number of bona fide first-choice candidates of top quality we would be likely to get at the peak of the tidal wave. I emphasize it because I feel that the astronomical figures of total college enrollment which have been used so loosely have obscured the scope and nature of Harvard's problem and it is desirable to try to define as concretely as possible the magnitude of the pressure we will face...
...recent win over Navy. The Middies are a perennial squash power in the East ranking second only to Princeton last year, and their heavy smash games were expected to give the varsity "a lot of trouble." The Crimson had been improving steadily and reached both a physical and mental peak for the match...