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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is a little matter $ome of our $ubscribers have $eemingly forgotten. We are $o mode $t that we do not like to $peak about it."- Tuftonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/14/1888 | See Source »

...model of the statue of John Harvard, to be placed in the peak of the Delta at Cambridge, is finished. It is necessarily ideal, as no pictures or busts of the subject remain. [Gazette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/30/1883 | See Source »

...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/24/1882 | See Source »

...mountain peak must wildly shriek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANATKH. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...From peak to cloud, from lake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEPTEMBER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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