Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dancers. The progress of the two women chiefly concerned herein is much like that of a mountain cable railway. One starts at the peak and slips downward; along the adjoining track the other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
...record amount of unfilled orders was established in July, 1920, when the tonnage on the books reached 11,118,468. From this "peak" the figure declined to a low mark of 4,141,069 tons in February, 1922. After that date, however, the unfilled tonnage rose almost every month, until a high point of 7,403,332 tons was reached in March, 1923. Since then a decline has occurred every subsequent month, as follows: April 30, 7,288,509; May 31, 6,981,351; June 30, 6,386,261; July 31, 5,910,763; Aug. 31, 5,414,663; Sept...
...smaller enrollment in the University as a whole might or might not mean a smaller enrollment among courses in Biology. At any rate, in Biology I, where now the pressure appears to have reached its peak, the percentage of course membedrs to college members would undoubtedly remain the same. For Biology I, in the state into which it has now evolved, is as much a cultural course as general courses in History or English. Nobody, in suggesting changes in the course menu, would desire to have all science courses black-balled. There are, no doubt, courses in science...
...Perrin has not looked deeply enough into the American character. Paris has, whether rightly or wrongly, through stage quips and La Vie. Parisienne, gained a world-wide reputation for naughtiness. This is no great wonder for in the summer, when emigration from the United States is at its peak, all good Parisians go to their watering places leaving Paris no longer French but almost American. The French who remain speak English, play up to the visitors, and give them at least half their money's worth. With such a reputation Paris naturally becomes a lode-stone to New Englanders heavily...
Some experts claim.that the California production has passed its peak, and statistics bear this out so far; the week ending Sept. 15 saw a decline in the daily average production of 5,750 barrels over the previous week. A cheerful view of the oil industry was taken by Harry F. Sinclair, who pointed out the undoubted increase in consumption, owing to the continued increase in the number of automobiles operated. Present difficulties in the oil business are not due to declining consumption-that has steadily increased; it has been the sudden and excessive Western production that has increased stocks...