Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrations show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
...medical care of most of the veterans of World War II has only begun. In an openhanded mood at the war's end, Congress awarded all veterans, under certain conditions, free hospital care for the rest of their lives for any ailment whatsoever. V.A. estimates that its peak hospital load (if there are no more wars) will not come till...
...sonar to locate the schools of fish last year's catches slumped even more. Bitter rivals in normal times, the canners banded together, hired a plane and got the Coast Guard to lend another to scout offshore for sardines. By last week, at what is usually the peak of the season, Monterey had brought in only 9,700 tons, hardly enough to keep its canneries busy for a day. And the shortage had hiked the price of sardines from...
...cocoa already in the U.S. This, some traders estimated, accounted for at least 10? in the price rise and it played straight into the hands of the British. They are expected to put the new crop on sale within the next two weeks and will probably get peak prices...
Here lies a fundamental question hinging upon the University's desire to keep the Houses un-crowded. Should the Houses hold their current top peak until the general emergency has subsided! The Masters have already determined the reverse in the belief that the "line must be drawn somewhere." Under this policy the College will continue its practice of letting commuters in slowly but surely on the basis of how long they have commuted and how soon they graduate as well as how far on the outer edges they reside. Fairness has marked the conduct of this policy. Similarly some tutors...