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Word: peake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a lot of other Americans, will manage $199.4 billion, which by itself exceeds the budget of every other organizational entity on the face of the earth with the exception of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Fort Knox, repository of the world's gold, never at its peak (1942) had such wealth in its vaults (the 445.3 million oz. of gold in Fort Knox in 1942 would be worth a mere $104 billion even at today's prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 531,600 Tons of Dollars | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...preparation for the Carnival season, members of the ski squad have been taking hour-and-a-half trips to Pat's Peak in Henniker, N.H., where they train along with other teams at a ski academy under a cooperative coaching system. The Crimson rents floor space in a dormitory at the mountain, which has helped throw the team into debt...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Skiers Start Season This Weekend As UVM Hosts First of February Carnivals | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Despite these problems, Pat's Peak has worked out well for the skiers when they have found the time between exams to make the trek to New Hampshire. The area has a 35-meter jump, about 20 miles of cross-country trails and a mountain with a decent pitch...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Skiers Start Season This Weekend As UVM Hosts First of February Carnivals | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...field of battle remained three corporations - General Sexotics, Cybordelics, and Intercourse International. When the production of these giants was at its peak, sex, from a private amusement, a spectator sport, group gymnastics, a hobby, and a collector's market, turned into a philosophy of civilization. McLuhan, who as a hale and hearty old codger had lived to see these times, argued in his Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...student who asked not to be identified compared the odor to rotten eggs, adding that in his hallway the smell reached its peak on Sunday...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Clogged Sewers Create Odor In Winthrop House Dining Hall | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

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