Word: peake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into the pockets of his dungaree jacket and walked away. He was bone-tired but content. At 61, when everyone had said he was slipping, he had felt himself at a new peak of his powers. It had meant sometimes painting for 36 hours at a stretch; he had finished the 18 ft. by 36 ft. wall in a record-breaking 53 days' work. But there had been no waste in his haste. The draftsmanship in his new mural was unfalteringly sculptural...
...reputation was so well established in Thomas Edison's day that he gave its editor the first demonstration of his talking machine. But in recent years, Scientific American had been outdistanced by livelier rivals. Last week, with its circulation down to 40,000 (from a 93,660 peak), it came...
...What can be said about the refusal of the United States, at a period of peak employment, to open its doors even to the 400,000 carefully screened refugees for whom the Stratton bill would provide, or of our callous refusal to do more for the harried Jews than tell the Arabs and the British that they should immediately make room for them in little Palestine? Who can read the reports of the terms in which organizations like the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . turned thumbs down on the Stratton bill without perceiving that something morally precious...
...circulation is currently at an all-time peak, but is still pretty small. But among the 20,000 people who pay a stiff $1.25 a copy are many key legislators, editors, and Government officials. Pundit Walter Lippmann is devoting 14 columns to a rebuttal of an article in Foreign Affairs signed by "X," who is actually the State Department's Chief Policy Planner George F. Kennan (TIME, Sept...
With four men still expected, registration in C. H. J. Keppler's Foreign Students' Office has reached a peak of 124, topping last year's enrollment by 42 students...