Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swing violently left. Henry Wallace had tried to lead him that way and he had brushed Wallace off with in difference, even with contempt. But it was clear now that Republican conservatism had reached its peak in 1946. The voter had spoken-when he was good & ready-with a flat and incontrovertible voice. The voice announced a new chapter in U.S. politics. Harry Truman was now the absolute boss of a resurgent Democratic Party. Republicans might not be able to stand it. But the Republic could...
...somewhere in the Andes was an Inca capital that the Spanish never reached. Thereupon, he had gone out from Cuzco with a group of eager young scientists, had struck down the might gorge of the Urubamba canyon. Finally, on a muleteer's grudging tip, Bingham crawled up the peak known as Machu Picchu. There, under trees and matted vines, lay the lost city...
...about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
...pleasure in people, and when it comes to portraits he can afford to pick & choose. Hopkinson's sitters have included a score of college presidents, a brace of bishops, and such thinkers and men of letters as Alfred North Whitehead and John Masefield. Hopkinson hit an early peak in 1921 with his portrait of Charles W. Eliot, in which the late, great Harvard president's ramrod back is tellingly contrasted with the folded gentleness of his big hands. A more recent painting of Harvard's James Bryant Conant seems to show him searching lor the proper word...
More for Stockholders. The boom was going as strong as ever; the Federal Reserve Board reported that September production had been the same as in August, just short of the postwar peak. In the reports that began pouring in last week, many third-quarter earnings proved to be much fatter than expected (example: General Electric's $29.2 million was up 49% from the similar 1947 quarter). And joyful shareholders cashed in. Earnings were so good for some 21 corporations that they declared extra dividends. Republic Steel, with its earnings ($12.8 million) more than doubled, declared extra dividends in both...