Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cyclones or hurricanes on the earth, have on the strength of the radio waves. By comparing the graphs of the sun spots and the radio reception we were gratified to discover that, invariably, as the number and intensity of sunspots increased, radio reception grew worse, until, at the peak of the period of sun spot activity, called the Sunspot Maximum, the radio signals reached their weakest point. Likewise, when the spots on the sun were fewest and weakest, the radio reception was best. For the measurement of radio reception we have made use of a superhetrodyne receiver with multiple stage...
...past weeks nationwide sniffling, coughing and dull fevers have heralded the spread of influenza. Unlike the famed epidemic of 1918, the disease spread from west to east.* Last week the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington estimated that 700,000 persons had the disease, with a possible peak of 3,000,000 cases. Kansas was dangerously affected. The northeastern states seemed exempt...
...were closely contested throughout, as is shown by the fact that three of the five continued for the full five games. The success of the Harvard Club's team was evidently due to the fact that they are now in the full swing of the season and in the peak of condition, while the University racquet-men plainly showed that they have not yet worked themselves up to their former form...
Event-of-the-year was the success of the livestock industry. Cattle prices reached a peak record-breaking for peacetime...
...dollar-volume of U.S. exports declined 91 millions in 1928 from the post-War peak of 4,968 millions reached in 1927. But this was due to lower prices. Quantitatively exports increased slightly. The dollar-volume would have risen but for the poor cotton crop...