Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unconfirmed radio dispatch received by a British archeologist in Paris, and cabled to America by a Hearst correspondent: "Nepal crowd hear Everest peak reached May 16. Bruce cannot confirm." The principality of Nepal in the Himalayas adjoins Mt. Everest on the east. General Bruce, the original commander of the expedition, has been at Darjeeling convalescing from the attack of malaria which compelled him to abandon the trek...
...From peak to peak, the rattling clouds among
...next Saturday. On its side Harvard can point to no single brilliant lights; Coach Herbert is rather depending on a team which will play and fight as a unit, and he is bending every effort this week in a final drive to bring the squad to the highest possible peak of development...
...statistics on business continue to come in, it is apparent that the months of February and March this year marked a "peak" in the most active industries. April has seen a consistent decline in the basic industries, particularly iron and steel, and the assumption now seems to be for a quiet Summer, with a possible rally in the markets in the Fall if the likelihood for Mr. Coolidge's re-election is strong...
...questioned furthermore whether visitors come to greet the man or the office. Chief Justice Taft has probably suffered little from the handshaker's cramp since he left the White House. Yet some memorial of the President would be cherished forever. Such cards as are distributed on Pike's Peak testifying to the traveller's actual presence on the summit might be distributed in Heu of the traditional handshake. An office boy could thus dispose of a task which has become too burdensome for the first man of the land...