Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next September, and be faced with the certain prospect of four years more in New York's antique City Hall or should he, at the peak of his political success, step grandly out of Job No. 3 and cash in on what he calls his "commercial value...
...Freshman Dining Halls these long spring evenings notes that while the doors open at 5.30 very few men avail themselves of the opportunity of eating until six o'clock or after. Statistics show that in one dormitory less than 30 percent eat in the first hour. The peak is reached...
Even without such a stimulus the minor sports in Harvard have received a steady increase in undergraduate interest which reached its peak this spring when the call for candidates for the lacrosse team resulted in a larger turnout of men than any major team has received. It seems only fair that the men making this team should receive some insignia which at least approaches in importance that awarded to men on major sports teams, places on which were gained in a smaller field of competitors...
...hurricane deck of the S. S. Leviathan in Manhattan last week stood a 15-year-old girl in a dark sailor blouse, a white canvas hat and black shoes and stockings. To the mainmast peak she, Joanna Chapman, ran up a small triangular flag picked out with the letter Y. Her father, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers...
Significance. A generation ago the New England textile industry began dipping from its peak to its present debilitated condition. Causes for the decline were: 1) the unionization of Labor with its new power to dictate higher wages, to call gory strikes, to obtain protective laws; 2) increased taxation; 3) increased cost of power. The mill owners cast anxiously about for a refuge from their troubles. The South, particularly the western sections of the Carolinas, seemed attractive...