Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west coast of Africa in order to determine the best location for this southern station of the University Observatory. Since its foundation at Arequipa, Professor Bailey has been in complete charge of the work there. In 1893 he established a meteorological station on the summit of the famous Andes peak, El Misti, which rears its head 19,000 feet above sea level. In this little hut which is by far the highest station erected for scientific observation in the world observations of the greatest importance were carried on for over 10 years...
...advent of motion pictures and the automobile are going to cause the college man to displace the working boys from the peak of the boxing world, according to Billy Shevlin, boxing instructor at the University. Hereafter college men will rank first in boxing skill as in football...
...leasehold on the property, acquired by J. P. Morgan & Co. in 1920, runs until A.D. 2004. Across the street, the New York Stock Exchange, centre of the Wall Street securities market, recently completed a 22-story addition-at peak construction prices. Up the street, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, centre of the Wall Street money market, at about the same time finished its magnificent new headquarters-also at practically peak building prices. But until recently, J. P. Morgan & Co. merely put some inexpensive iron fire-escapes on the Mills Building and waited for lower building costs. Evidently those have...
...waves. Using this device in Southern California, last year, experiments were made by Prof. Michelson which measured the speed of light-now given as 186,000 miles a second-with a possible error of only 20 miles per second. A light and the interferometer were placed on one peak. A mirror was placed on a peak 20 miles distant. By receiving rays direct from the light next to it and rays which had travelled 40 miles (from the light to the distant mirror and back), the interferometer showed the light fringes and dark lines of interference from which the speed...
...reduction of the Government's indebtedness to the Bank of France, which will hold and use the proceeds as it may deem wise for the protection and stabilization of the franc. The Government's indebtedness to the Bank has already been materially reduced since the peak of such borrowings, reached at the end of 1920." The loan was issued in the form of 25-year sinking fund gold bonds. The price of issue was 94; interest at the rate of 7% on the par value, making a net return of 7.53%. The operation of the sinking fund, however...