Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt's "brain trust", told an audience at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Business School on Saturday. "It will be said in years to come that an administration came into office at the precise moment when a crisis almost unparalleled in modern history had reached its peak. It will be pointed out that whenever such a crisis has occurred elsewhere in the world, its swift sequel has been a revolution...
...President Roosevelt took Harry L. Hopkins away from New York's Governor Lehman as State Relief Administrator, appointed him Federal Emergency Relief Administrator to disburse the Government's new $500,000,000 fund. Administrator Hopkins declared that the peak of unemployment was passed...
...about 750,000. Add hundreds of thousands of high school youngsters and "townies" who want to talk and act like collegians, and you have a fertile circulation field for a collegiate magazine. The field was well tilled by College Humor which several years ago hit a circulation peak of 350,000. But circulation at 35? a copy could not survive hard times. It dwindled to 140,000 last year when College Humor, heavily burdened by overhead, fell into the hands of creditors who turned it over to a new publisher. Since then it has been published as College Humor...
Desire under the elms at New Haven used to reach its peak on the second Thursday in May. The junior class would assemble at 5 p. m. around the Yale Fence on the Old Campus while hundreds of other students and guests looked on from the sidelines and from surrounding dormitory windows. Out among the juniors would pass 60 grave-faced seniors, one at a time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four...
...Most indexes are adjusted to season variations. Typical is power production which must be adjusted to iron out the rise in winter (when days are short), the decline in summer. Annual peak is usually a cloudy day in the week of Dec. 22. shortest day of the year. Bottom is not around June 21, longest day. but always July 4. most observed U. S. holiday...