Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, Sadie has never made the big leagues of quiz business. She hit her peak, as Mutual's Queen for a Day, in October 1945, when she won $400 worth of small prizes. Another time, she acquired a shiny new barber chair, which she sold for a secret but satisfactory...
Demand for gasoline this year is running about 9% over last year's alltime high-and the summer peak is still ahead. U.S. stocks are up almost as much (to in million barrels), but they are unevenly stored. The shortage of transportation has already caused some "dry spots," notably in Baltimore and Washington. If demand increases, oilmen estimate that supply will be 4% less than needed (about 100,000 barrels a day) by midsummer...
...Spring in the air," chortled Harrison L. Blair '51 as he strolled by Soldiers Field Tuesday with companion Severe M. Ornstein '51; and suiting action to the word, the pair leaped aboard the WBZTV television tower and climbed to the 580-foot peak...
...snow-covered summit. Poorly provisioned and clothed, his party was forced to turn back by a roaring blizzard. 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...
Last week, the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor of Colorado Springs, which lies on the plain below Pikes Peak, uncorked a magnificent scheme to build a tomb for Zeb Pike on the mountaintop he never reached. Colorado papers, scent ing another tourist attraction, played the story big; the Colorado delegation in Congress whooped it up. Said a Chamber of Commerce official: "If we can just get old Zeb and add him to the rest of the stuff we got here, it'll mean millions, boy, millions...