Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Harvard Flying Club has been dowered by entrance into the Hartford races with more publicity than its share during three years of useful activity, such participation is not the peak of the club's achievement during the present year. The value of airplane racing for the college pilot is open to question in the minds of others besides President Angell of Yale, who on Monday, although assigning no reason to his action, forbade Yale undergraduates from entering in any meet for an indefinite length of time...
...political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion of small-town Ohioans, he remained. President he was not destined to be but he died at the peak of his endeavor in that direction. Ohio wept him. The Senate mourned him. The country noticed that he was gone...
...usual near any peak of stock market enthusiasm, an oracle of immense prestige dramatically crowed at the precise moment when the market needed a cheery word to carry it into still higher price area. In July 1926, Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, was interviewed the midnight he sailed for Europe. He was said to have said that General Motors "should.and will" go 100 points higher...
...mont went West with famed Kit Carson, observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...Harvard indoor polo team will seek tonight to repeat its victory of ten days ago over the Yale riders when the two rivals meet in the Commonwealth Armory this evening. The game, which marks the peak of the local indoor polo season, is scheduled to begin at 7.30 o'clock, and the six chukkers will be hustled through as rapidly as possible, so that the event will not conflict with the hockey game later in the evening...