Word: peake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal and dissension seized upon it internally; rival organizations sprang up?the Independent Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Sword, etc.?and in some places community pressure attacked it from without...
...semi-final match of the upper bracket which will virtually decide the championship. L. S. Haskins '26 has won his way to the other final birth but is conceded little chance of downing either Wright or Rawlins. The newly seated Crimson leader for next year has reached the peak of his game and is anxious to annex his second squash crown of the year Rawlins now holds the College title...
Last year at this time a similar expedition to Mt. Chicorua was staged, and two years ago three members of the club climbed an unnamed peak in the Columbia ice fields of the Canadian Rockies. It is proposed to name the peak Mt. Harvard...
Ring Game Now at its Peak...
...over twenty-three billions. Thus far the debt has been steadily retired, but this has been due chiefly to the super-taxes on high incomes, which Congress is now proposing to abolish in part. These exactions though admittedly heavy, have proved more annoying than crushing; Industry reached its highest peak of post-war prosperity last year, thus showing conclusively that the present rate of taxation is not putting too much of a strain on business. The government can turn the prosperity of the times to advantage, by keeping taxation at its present level...