Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means what it looks as if it meant; sometimes it does not. But now these have developed outside signs of breakers ahead too. Even realtors are declaring the construction boom, particularly in the East, is somewhat overripe. The usually reliable industrial barometer of steel production has apparently reached its peak and begun to turn downwards, rather the way it did last year. Even the better foreign news has apparently been "discounted" in the markets, and has proved insufficiently cheering to allay a feeling that things are likely to get worse before they get better...
Recovery since the peak of inflation (July, 1920) is, however, marked by the fact that since the peak the cost of living has dropped...
...effect of a greater proportionate quota for northern and western European countries and smaller proportionate quotas for southern and eastern European countries. Until 1882 immigration from northwestern Europe was almost all our immigration, and 1882 (with less than 600,000 such immigrants) was the peak of that immigration which declined irregularly but continually to about 200,000 annually before the War. On the other hand, it was not until 1886 that southeastern Europe furnished 100,000 immigrants in a year. It never went below that mark until the War, and contributed between 500,000 and 1,000,000 annually from...
...Roman poetic literature reached its culmination in the work of Virgil and Horace. . . . It is remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...
...bare facts are interesting enough, but the dialogue and the acting carry the whole to the peak of success. Frank Lalor, as Papa, has a way of making his face do his acting for him. It is he, almost as much as his junior partner, who makes the thing go. June Bradley, as Daughter, does well in a rather less interesting part; while Lucin Moore, as Mama, improves on the usual type of dowager lady...