Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Players today are not trained or prepared physically to go an entire game . . . and [thus] never reach the peak of physical condition. They're good passers, better catchers, and good kickers, but they lack stamina." Then he allowed himself a Senecan lament on mid-Century males in general: "It is my opinion that the youth of today, on or off the gridiron, is not trained for total responsibility as the youth of my earlier years...
...year's end, prices of electrical appliances (refrigerators, irons, washing machines, etc.) were down 25% from their peak; cotton cloth was down again to OPA levels and below. Some prices were still rising (autos, metals, etc.), but the "cost-of-living" items (food, clothing, furniture, etc.) were coming down. A drop in retail sales had scared department stores into a rash of pre-Christmas price cutting. Even then, stores barely managed to sell as much...
...Chevvies. After a long climb, employment and production in some industries were both dropping "unseasonally" at year's end. Though employment, at 60.1 million, was almost one million above the end of 1947, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost-of-living index, which reached a postwar peak of 174.5 in August, had steadily moved down to about...
What little slack there was suddenly disappeared. Industrial production moved up again; the National Industrial Conference Board's consumers' price index shot up to the highest point in its 34-year history; employment, which had been holding steady, began to climb; in July it reached an alltime peak of 61,615,000. The labor shortage, in the words of one depressed Chicago personnel manager, "is worse than steel." And the U.S. had its first $1-a-pound roundsteak...
...another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban which spread so rapidly from Persia"). The glories of the Medicis and the Italian Popes simply show that "the bodice is gradually taking on importance"; the Renaissance reaches its peak with a striking innovation named "the handcouvre-chef"; and gothic cathedral frescoes offer the well-dressed lady "a dramatic cuff...