Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy Papa. Cribmaking reached a peak in the 17th and 18th centuries, and there were no inhibitions against anachronism; in one Augsburg crib the Annunciation takes place in a miniature Louis XVI drawing room with the Angel Gabriel dressed like a court page...
...Fight. During the unrestrained violence of the dinner-table combat between Anne and Patty, the play reaches its peak-in one of the most nerve-shattering scenes ever acted on Broadway. Ordering the Kellers out of the room, Annie flails into the heroic task of teaching wild young Helen the rudiments of table manners. Food and silverware explode across the room. Little Helen rushes to the door to pound out a plea for freedom. Annie promptly wrestles her back to her seat. Again and again and again, the child escapes and is captured. Again and again, Annie meets the near...
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY assets will climb to a record peak of $113.6 billion by the end of the year, up $6 billion from last year's high...
...provided by an economy that is almost entirely capitalist free enterprise. Last year Socialist Premier Tage Erlander promised even more welfare benefits on the easy, easy. He proposed legislation to guarantee workers over 67 years old a lifetime pension amounting to two-thirds of their average earnings at the peak 15 years of their working lives. Who would pay? Why, employers would bear the costs, getting tax relief in return, promised Erlander. He added solemnly: "We have no intention of raising taxes...
...Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached $735,110,000, compared with $636,530,000 in the same period last year, while profits hit an alltime peak of $55,650,000 compared with...