Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inquiries made at various sources in the Houses and at the Freshman Union showed that the number of men entering the dining halls reaches its peak sometime between 6 and 6.30 o'clock, and then declines steadily, until the final rush just before 7 o'clock. An exception was found in the case of Eliot House, known in kitchen jargon as a "late house...
...explanation as advanced for the unusual results observed at Eliot House. On the basis of a short period of investigation, it was discovered that not more than 35 or 40 men usually ate during the first half hour. The peak is reached...
More dubious are the theories that sunspots affect the habits and numbers of animals, cause droughts, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes. The withering drought of 1929 was close to a sunspot peak, but there were other drought causes-light snows, early thaws-the preceding winter. California's Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, S. J., "Padre of the Rains," had astonishing success in predicting weather by sunspots, but Father Jerome is dead now and his secret seems to have died with...
...against the Germans, a Red artilleryman against the Whites. Now in Moscow (he was born in Odessa) he has beaten his sword into one of Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak, Kataev is 36, just about the right age for a New Russian. His earlier book (The Embezzlers ) was written with such humorous disregard of officialdom that U. S. readers wondered about Russia's censorship. In Russia Kataev is one of the most widely read and one of the most...
...years the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was chiefly made by three people: John Long Severance, its chief patron; Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, its manager, who first convinced Cleveland that it wanted an orchestra; and Con ductor Nikolai Sokoloff who assembled the musicians, trained them from scratch. Peak of the first 15 years came in 1931 when John Severance gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate...