Word: peake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bond prices have apparently reached their peak, and banks are steadily liquidating their holdings in preparation of rising interest rates and lower bond prices this fall...
Having taken photographs and observations, they clambered down, sore beset by icy hurricanes that seemed blasts of spite from the great peak. Second highest† on the continent, it had never before been scaled...
They climbed the steep ascent of Logan, triumphant over gravity, Zero (4° to 32° below), tempests, blizzards, "monstrous ice-cliffs and blocks of fantastic shapes with overhanging masses." Scaling one peak only to find one 600 ft. higher looming beside them, they toiled 1,000 feet down, then hacked footholds up to the true peak. They stood for an hour on a ledge, a yard wide, looking off over a billowing sea of clouds punctured by glacier-streaming peaks. They saw their own shadows moving in a rainbow 19,800* ft. above the sea-floors of the world...
...favorite angle of approach of the proponents of this false and deceiving propaganda is to point out Federal reductions from the high peak of War taxes and expenditures and the increase in state and local taxes since 1918. Comparisons, to be fair and honest, must cover the entire cycle from 1914 to 1924." He then proceeded to make comparisons between the Federal Government and his own state for the years...
Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, born in the village of Wolfshaven in 1797, was, with his brothers, a mountain guide. His country was devastated by Napoleon, then by the insurgent Prussians. His three brothers were killed on a mountain peak by a lightning bolt. Heinrich Steinweg joined the troops of the Duke of Brunswick. He played the bugle. In his knapsack, he carried a jewsharp- an instrument which he found inadequate. He evolved a dulcimer. It was played by striking the strings with little hammers...