Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first paired quasars were discovered last March by a trio of astronomers, Britons Dennis Walsh and Robert Carswell and American Ray Weymann, using the 2.1-meter (82-in.) telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona...
...quasars were about 10 billion light-years from earth (meaning that the light detected at Kitt Peak had left the objects 10 billion years ago), and both were receding from the earth at two-thirds the speed of light. What was most unusual was that they were only some 150,000 light-years apart-a stone's throw by cosmic standards-and had virtually identical light spectrums, which meant that their physical characteristics, as well as their velocities, were the same...
...women sailors also have contributed to Harvard's sailing glories in the past. They qualified for the women's National Dinghy Championships for nine consecutive years beginning in 1968. During this peak period the team won three consecutive national titles from 1968-1970 and took their latest...
...those games that is extra-hard to lose. After playing near their peak for over an hour, the Crimson stickwomen finally broke down and allowed a goal by Springfield's Lisa DiStefano with 5:50 remaining that sent them to the showers disappointed, 1-0 losers...
...taste for Hawkes. At its best his writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject is the eruption of some dark, violent passion into the turmoil of mental ife, and his prose strains not only to describe this event but to re-create it. Hawkes at peak intensity is the literary equivalent of delirium...