Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neutrals noted that Japan has not. of course, surpassed Britain's peak volume of cotton textile exports. In 1929 Britain exported 3,866,000,000 square yards, Japan 1,418,000,000. What Japan has done is to filch Britain's customary lion's share of what cotton textile orders the East has to give in this lean year...
...universe) Abelard was not only a brilliant scholar but a bold thinker. Envious' and less able enemies had maneuvered him out of one hall of learning after another, but wherever he was he drew throngs of worshipful listeners. Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak of his career, the shining star of the Paris Schools. When old Fulbert, canon of Notre Dame, invited Abelard to share his house and tutor his beautiful niece Heloise, Abelard was living the unconsciously uncomfortable life of a natural bachelor. Under Fulbert's roof he quickly caught fire from Heloise...
...comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn't discuss your complexes and O'Neill intelligibly. Then came "Mourning Becomes Electra...
...semifinals. In the other, Frank Shields and Frankie Parker played Vines & Keith Gledhill, defending champions. Shields and Parker took the first two sets, with Vines playing badly. Vines and Gledhill won the next two, when Shields was shaky. Finally, shrewd little Parker pulled his game to its peak and helped his partner run out five games in a row for the last set and the most startling upset of the tournament...
Last week Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Vienna's archbishop, appealed to the world to rescue "millions" in Russia from famine which he predicted would be at its peak in four months. Declared he: "Famine conditions there are accompanied by such cruel phenomena of mass starvation as infanticide and cannibalism...