Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third time in three years, and with high prospects of success, a party of British army officers and explorers will attempt this summer to scale Mt. Everest, king of the Himalayas and the world's highest peak (est. 29,002 ft.). Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, who led the almost successful expedition of 1922, will again be in command. With him will be Major E. F. Norton, D.S.O., George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Captain C. J. Morris and Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the 1922 party, all of whom reached heights of 27,000 ft. or over...
...phase in the basketball season. The period before mid-years was chiefly one of gradual development. That development has been furthered in strenuous practice sessions interspersed among the examinations of the past two weeks. Now the team will be called upon to reach and maintain the peak of its power in successive contests with. Syracuse, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, and Yale. These four aggregations, the last three of which rank high in the Intercollegiate League, will furnish a far stronger brand of basketball than the Crimson's early season opponents...
Occasionally there comes an apparent peak in the production of new inventions in the field of machines. Here is the record of recent weeks...
...tone has pervaded the industry ever since it was learned that the current production of crude oil was on the decrease. For the week ending Jan. 5 the output was 1,884,050 barrels daily, which compares with 1,927,750 barrels for the week ending Dec. 29, 1923. Peak production was reached the week ending Sept. 8, 1923, when the daily average production was 2,280,700 barrels...
...University of Maine 36; Harvard 66; but Captain Coburn had only just returned to the squad after a prolonged absence, and Watters did not run at all. Even more important in calculations based on this score is the acknowledged fact that the Crimson has only this week reached the peak of its training. The same consideration also applies to M. I. T., which was patently at the top of its form in defeating the University 21 to 35 three weeks...