Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark side Commissioner Mulrooney found that criminal age limits were still going down. More youths between 16 and 20 were arrested (up from 38,959 to 39,186), though fewer of them had committed crimes of violence. Peak of the crime age lay between 26 and 30. Though there were eleven fewer than 1931's 489 murders and manslaughters, the Commissioner viewed with grave alarm the public's continued indifference and refusal to cooperate in bringing killers to justice...
Professor Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels will peak on "Our Free Balloon in the Stratosphere" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Rice Institute of Geographical Exploration, Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, emeritus, announced last night...
...aggregate salary in 1930 was $106,000. It reached a peak of $113,000 in 1931 and my present salary is $50,000 a year. Not that my personal troubles are of any interest to this Senate but because the Press is here I would like the privilege of stating that my debts are over...
...railroad plant is the finest in the world. Of the world's 780,000 mi. of railways about one-third is in the U. S. Some say that the plant is too big, that the $26,000,000,000 it cost was too much, that the peak of its usefulness has passed. The reason it is in quicksand is not that its trains are not on time but because its managers never dreamed they would have so few trains to keep on time...
William Paterson (1658-1719) was a Scotsman who early removed to the Bahamas. In the Bahamas he preached to the planters' servants, learned from pirates the lore of the Spanish Main, conceived a scheme. The southern reaches of the Isthmus of Panama were known as Darien. From a peak in Darien Balboa first saw the Pacific. Soon the Spaniards were transporting their Inca loot across the Isthmus...