Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. report showed that U.S. divorces in 1947 were down from 1946's alltime peak as much...
When the Council's first meeting ends there will be as many sects and denominations as before; there will be no "Protestant Pope," nor even a unified high command. But the hope is that a new peak will be reached in brotherly understanding, and that a long step will be taken toward church reunion...
...Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting Evangelistas has steadily grown. Last week it was at a new peak...
...article about Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike [TIME, May 10], you state: "Pike predicted that the summit would never be reached by man. But 14 years later it was scaled (by someone else); in 1835 it was recorded on a map as Pikes Peak...
...explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to the source of the River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James...