Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
Last week the price of tin on the London Metal Exchange was ?309 ($1497.11) a ton, the practical equivalent of the New York Metal Exchange's current quotation of nearly 70? a pound. These are slightly lower than the recent peak prices of more than ?318 ($1,540.71) at London and more than 71? at Manhattan. London gambling in tin has apparently ceased for a while, but London's control of this metal has not, for Great Britain holds suzerainty over the Federated Malay States (holders of 50% of the world's tin ore stores*) and controls...
...peak of his success, Sam has double pneumonia. His weak heart fails slowly. As he lies grimly cheerful in bed, completely absorbed in the fate of his body, it is less and less upon his public fame, more and more upon his dead wife and Delphine that his side-thoughts turn. Delphine commits suicide, victim of melancholy. Her young sister, Gwen, arrives to lament, to accuse. She stays to love Sam's son, Geoffrey. Sam passes his crisis but relapses. Deserted by Delphine, he utters his wife's name as his jaw drops...
...demand the suppression of fervid personal reaction on the part of the critics as well as an intimate knowledge of Mr. Bennetts psychology. Assuming, then, that "Lord Raingo" is all it is intended to be, the reader's disappointment mounts through nearly 400 pages from mild distaste to a peak of pure chagrin and positive depression...
MacPhall and Looley were the stars on the Dartmouth team. Peak, of the visitors, was a constant threat, and his kicking was instrumental in keeping the ball out of Virginia territory...