Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706), he settled in Philadelphia, often visited Manhattan, spent some years in England, traveled on the Continent, reached the peak of his career in France. It is not inappropriate that this comprehensive and readable biography of the first U. S. world-citizen has been written by a Frenchman...
...history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp. for distribution in Minnesota. Further, the Company announced that unfilled orders were at a new all-time peak for the season, that employment and payroll were at the highest level for any December in its history...
...which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just as he is at the peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat $10.50 charge is made to those who eat twenty one meals per week...
...advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness had been attained. But now the landscape is plastered, advertising sections of magazines and newspapers are fat, with advertisements of women and girls smoking cigarets with utmost abandon...
...Highly complimented" felt Senator Borah last week to learn that his State, following the example of Wyoming which named its highest peak after its longtime Senator Francis Emroy Warren (TIME, July 1), was naming its highest spot Mount Borah. The Idaho Geographic Board, with the Senator's permission, forwarded the mountain's new name to the U. S. Geographic Board in Washington for inscription on all future maps...