Word: peakedness
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The man who had the problem closest to home, and studied it there, was George T. Singleton, an ear, nose and throat man at the University of Florida. He noticed that when he picked up his teen-age daughter Marsha after a dance she couldn't hear what he...
Once Stassen was the boy wonder-a county attorney at 23, Governor of Minnesota at 31, Republican Convention keynoter (in 1940) at 33, as well as floor manager for Wendell Willkie. His own cause peaked in 1948 when he scored impressive victories in the Wisconsin and Nebraska presidential primaries, only...
The Department quit at just the wrong moment; since then horses have staged a surprising comeback, now total more than 7,000,000, of which 85% are saddle horses. Nor has the demand by any means peaked. Nearly every breed is still on the increase, from Tennessee Walking Horses (91...
What seems to be determinant is changing fashions in family planning. After World War I, the ideal family became set at two children ("a boy for you, a girl for me"). During the Depression, hard economic realities held down the birth rate. After World War II, the vogue for large...
The general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the...