Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the distillers' code came the importers' marketing agreement. Article III of this agreement provided for minimum import quotas based on the peak years 1910-14, in which the U. S. bought overseas some 4,000,000 gal. of spirits, some 7,000,000 gal. of wine yearly. No restrictions were placed on the number of U. S. importing firms, but the total business was to be distributed by FACA according to "legitimate trade needs" of individual houses...
...consider Bobby Jones to be the greatest golfer that ever lived. There is no shot on the course he cannot, or rather could not, play to perfection. Whether he will ever be able to attain that peak again remains to be seen. George Dunlap, formerly of Princeton, and present holder of the National Amateur title, and Johnny Goodman, National Open Champion, are the best of the younger group of golfers...
...unprepared or unfit for advanced work of any sort. The Graduate School today is clogged up with men who have chosen scholarship as an easy way to support themselves, who have no impetus to their work except a professional and economic one, who will reach their intellectual peak when they are given their degree. Naturally, graduate study is professional, but in the arts and sciences, it ought to spring from a full-blooded and passionate interest in one or more fields, and a desire to further present accomplishments in them. Anyone who lacks these qualities should be scrupulously debarred...
Though Harvard is the logical climax of the novel it is by no means the only peak. For, after all, who at Harvard is ordinary and does ordinary things? Her scholars devote their lives to great things, at any rate to recording and commenting upon them, in an heroic endeavor to persuade greatness to yield its secret. And the point of Hoffman's novel is that life can be led without greatness, for life contains enough besides to be always interesting and intense. There is pathos, as the story, of the old Grandmother shows; there is evil, as the story...
...founded in 1901. On Nov. 1 of that year the backlog was 2,380,000 tons. Just before the 1907 panic the figure was 8,489,000. At the start of the War it was 3,787,000 but by 1917 had climbed to an all-time peak of 11,711,000 tons. On Sept. 30 Steel's backlog hit an alltime low-1,775,000 tons...