Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Henry Marcus Lane, 74, of Cincinnati, famed construction engineer (Pike's Peak cog railroad); in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...
...base of Pike's Peak, last week, Bill Williams of Rio Hondo, Tex., started to nose-push a peanut. His purpose: To push it to the top. Mr. Williams acquired his nose-pushing habit last year when he lost an election bet on Alfred Emanuel Smith...
With an impressive record of nine victories and only one defeat behind them, the Dartmouth diamond forces will come to Cambridge today in an attempt to wallop the already faltering Crimson ball tossers. The game which is set for 4 o'clock should find the Hanoverians at their peak with their undefeated hurling ace Hollstron on the mound...
...figures what they must accomplish to do so; and he counts on their living up to expectations. His men are on the up-grade, but the bad weather of the past two days has interfered with the intensive training he had planned. Yale, on the other hand, reached the peak of its form last Saturday, and will not be hurt so much it this week's practice is slowed up by rain...
...years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...