Word: peaked
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...follow each other like soldiers of fortune, some dashing, some indifferent and some gross. No new score is offered, and the numbers are set to music as diverse as that of J.S. Bach and John Philip Sousa, Johnny Mercer and Neil Diamond, among others. The show's dithyrambic peak, "Benny's Number," is scaled with the percussive aid of Louis Prima's Sing, Sing, Sing...
Those who have made an ascent -whether to the top of the Matterhorn or to the less rarefied heights of a 1,000-ft. peak in their nearest state park-are likely to agree with Jerome's paeans to the joys of topography. "Wonder and delight await, up there," he says. So does "elbowroom for the soul." Even those who have never left sea level will enjoy the au thor's lofty musings. Jerome points out that a range like the Himalayas is still growing (Everest may be more than a foot harder to climb in a hundred...
...number of applicants to the Medical School, which more than tripled between 1967 and 1977, has declined to 3700 after reaching a peak of 3860 last year...
While the number of individuals applying to medical schools has declined nationally, from a peak of 42,000 in '74-75, to an estimated 37,000 for '78-79, the number of openings has increased during that time from 14,720 to 16,500, according to Davis G. Johnson, director of the division of student studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges...
Astronomers at the Hale and Kitt Peak National Observatories said Friday they observed a massive black hole with a density millions of times greater than the sun at the center of Galaxy...