Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mallory, an English university man of scientific attainment became famous by scaling some of the highest peaks in the Alps. Because of his experience he was chosen to make a preliminary survey of the world's highest peak in 1921.It was largely due to his knowledge of high altitudes that the Mt. Everest expedition succeeded in reaching, last May, a spot 27,235 feet above sea level--the highest point ever trod by human beings...
...final dash for the summit Mr. Mallory and two other succeeded in reaching a spot 1700 feet from the summit. There a solid wall of ice stretched upward to the peak. Footholds were cut in this, in a last desperate effort to complete the journey. However utter exhaustion compelled a hasty retreat...
...other characters little can be said. Marie Nordstrom was pleasingly entertaining. Georgie Price still had his abundance of wit. Valeska Surati has evidently reached the peak and is on the decline, and can no longer represent the vampire with marked success...
...second sort of price movement to be considered is the price of money, the course of interest rates. In the summer of 1920 the interest rates on commercial paper reached a high point of eight percent. From that peak they fell for two years, until in this August they were below four percent. Since then they have been rising, and it seems probable that they will tend to rise rather than to fall during the rest of 1922. If industry continues to expand during the early months of 1923, interest rates will probably advance. If they do advance...
...seems probable that the present business, expansion will be halted, not by a shortage of credit, but by a shortage of labor, complicated by a shortage of railroad transportation, and it seems further probable that those two shortages are already well on the way toward becoming serious. During the peak of the boom in the spring of 1920 manufacturing firms began an active and aggressive competition for labor, and when that happened manufacturing costs ran up and profits disappeared...