Search Details

Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Crack Train. The New York Central's 20th Century Limited reached a peak in receipts for the year 1926-$10,500,000. It operated an average of more than six sections a day; carried one-half of the New York-Chicago passengers of the N. Y. C., one-third of the total passengers of all railroads between the two cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...successful candidates will be expected to work over their speeches during the Christmas recess in order to be prepared for the three meetings on January 3, 4, and 5 respectively during which the team must round itself into the peak of its form for the debate which will be held on January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN DEBATERS PICKED FOR UNIVERSITY TEAMS | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

...except ye be as a child ye cannot ascend Parnassus without art. And Vachel Lindsay is a child without art, and as a child without art he sets out bravely not toward Parnassus but toward the mountains of Glacier Park, toward Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and the Red Gods, and various flowers, and love in a cabin, and far horizons. As a child he returns with a bouquet of words about Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and various flowers, and far horizons, and the Red Gods, and love in a cabin. As the bouquet of a child is this...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon, | Title: Verse With a Character All its Own | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Hall, started up the treacherous slopes of Mount Logan. In the latter part of June they succeeded in reaching the summit and thus achieved the distinction of being the first to conquer the gales and icy blasts of Mount Logan, 19,800 feet in altitude and the second highest peak in North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YUKON EXPLORER TO TELL MOUNTAINEERING FEAT | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...Some of the Black Hills of South Dakota are no hills. Harney Peak, is the loftiest mountain in these hills. It is perched up on this peak that Senators Norbeck and McMaster of South Dakota want President Coolidge to spend his 1927 summer vacation. There the state maintains a large residential lodge which it would be pleased to have the President occupy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Previous | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next