Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect him to poll about 200,000 votes and cut heavily into Mr. Smith's downstate Dry strength. Thus, with the Republican Drys split and with Mr. Brennan looming in the Wet districts of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis, and Peoria, the Democratic camp has reached a peak of hopefulness...
...Company suffered," said Sir Eric, "from a lack of sufficient planes to cope with the peak load of traffic during the summer. . . . Our loss was in great measure due to the writing off of obsolete equipment. . . . The real test of the soundness of this company's policy will be shown by the report for our third year...
...good luncheon. As we sat down the clouds drifted away from before Mont Blanc, and the famous peak stood out in all its whiteness. And we both felt that its whiteness was not whiter than the whiteness of our souls...
...epithets, threats, and bombs on many a far-flung U. S. legation. The Department warned that extraordinary precautions would be wise (TIME, June 21), after several persons had been killed. Last week the ill-guided demonstrations came to a peak in Paris, as the day of death approaches the two Italians. Ten thousand Parisian workers in embattled assemblage decried the execution, maintaining as always, that the men are being made the victims of anti-radicalism. Meanwhile a stay of execution has been given in the light of new testimony and an alleged confession from a Spaniard...
...horse was to have vanished from the face of the earth at the advent of gas machinery. But the automotive industry is at a peak, and there are more U. S. farm horses than ever before. Similarly, it is natural to conclude that wireless communication is superseding cable lines. But, last week, the Western Union Co. manifested the continued vigor of its industry, spurred perhaps by radio competition, by landing the Newfoundland shore-end of a new New York-to-London cable costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining...