Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When liquor was legalized, Federal Alcohol Control Administration was swamped with 1,000 requests for permission to bring in 50,000,000 gal. of foreign wines & spirits. In the peak pre-War years, 12,000,000 gal. had been the annual importation. Accordingly, FACA issued import licenses after drastically reducing all importers' quotas. This action wrought considerably more hardship on legitimate dealers who had applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with...
...Some scholars believe that this peak rather than the modern Mt. Sinai, is the site of the burning bush through which God spoke to Moses. Because Mount St. Catherine is high, dry and dustless, the Smithsonian Institution now has a solar observatory thereon...
...oversimplification, but plain readers find him exciting. Harvardman (1900), he began his career as a lowly reporter for the New York Tribune, slogged his way up through reams of copy to be Washington correspondent and editorial writer. After he went to the Review of Reviews (1914) it reached its peak...
...Under present conditions, the peak load on the waiters comes between 8.30 and 9 o'clock, and student waiters are often hurried in getting away for 9 o'clock classes. Under the proposed advancement of the breakfast hour, the peak load would continue past 9 o'clock, and student waiters would have to give up their 9 o'clock classes or waitresses would have to be substituted for some of them. Since either of these results would be undesirable, we oppose this change...
That was the peak of Jockey Sloan's parabolic career. He had gone to England in 1898, dumfounded the crowds at Newmarket by gluing his small frame monkey-like to his mount's neck instead of perching high in the saddle. In the next two years he booted in 63 winners in 151 races, mostly for the late Lord Beresford. He saw English jockeys copy his "American style." He was exhibited to Mayfair drawing rooms, wore the silks of Edward of Wales, heard the future King shout from the royal box: "Well ridden, Sloan...