Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worrying done at examination time is not about the subject matter of the courses but about the Best Way of reaching peak mental efficiency at nine-fifteen on hot morning...
Bert Haines has rounded out his raw Sophomore material in significantly short order this year and believes he has one of the best lightweight boats ever to emerge from Newell. The Blue oarsmen on the other hand are mostly experienced Juniors who experts believe, have already reached their peak this season...
WASHINGTON--Works Progress administrator Harry L. Hopkins said today that the WPA will have to increase its rolls, probably to a new record peak, it the near future to meet a "serious" relief crisis in all the nation's industrial centers...
Fabulous Stagehand, winter-book favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby (after he had won both the Santa Anita Derby and the Santa Anita Handicap in California last winter), had apparently passed his peak. In the Derby Trial Stakes at Churchill Downs four days before the big race, he was beaten by two of his lightly regarded contemporaries, and subsequently scratched from the Derby because of a sore throat...
...March of the current academic year. Of those 414, only 135 who were eligible and living in residence this year had not been admitted to the Houses up to the time of the present assignment. Many of these men have now been placed for next year. Clearly the peak of the rejections has been passed...