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Word: peake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloud-hung peak, no yawning gorge, no waterfall's white and thundering precipice can astound the eye like New York. No traveler is ever prepared for it. The Big City is the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...threw their arms around me because I wasn't selling the Marshall Plan or telling them how to vote," she reported on her return. "They acted as though I were the last American democrat . . . We've become the old country when we ought to be at the peak of our youth and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Women of the World | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...industry had recovered to 40% of the 19307 34 level. For example, the great Yawata steel plant (a favorite wartime target of U.S. bombers from China) was producing again-62,000 tons of ingots and rolled steel in April; but this was only one-seventh of 1941's peak production rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One or Many? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...rambling, two-story Colorado Springs house, whose living-room windows frame Pikes Peak, Composer Harris, now 50, was having an unusual silent streak. Even for him, the country's most prolific symphonist, and one of the most frequently heard, a first performance in St. Patrick's would have been something to boast about. Said he stubbornly: "The Mass [is] for the Catholic people of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Everybody Except Composers | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

More In, More Out. U.S. imports increased $84,200,000 in March to reach an alltime peak of $666,200,000, said the Bureau of the Census (most spectacular gains were in raw wool and newsprint). Exports also showed a slight increase (up $54,700,000 to $1,141,000,000), but they were still 11% under last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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