Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burning bush through which God spoke to Moses was atop either Mt. Sinai or, according to another tradition, Mount St. Catherine twelve miles to the south. St. Catherine is the higher. It is the highest (8,540 ft.) peak, the point nearest the Sun in the rocky Sinai Peninsula. For that reason-and because the atmosphere thereabouts is almost dustless, almost hazeless-rather than for holy associations, the Smithsonian Institution decided that the top of St. Catherine was the best accessible place in the entire Eastern Hemisphere for a solar observatory. Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot last week announced that building...
Rise. Fourteen months ago 90% of the cigarets sold in the U. S. retailed for 15? a package. Tobacco was cheap, cigaret smoking was at its peak. The future looked fine and smoky to Tycoons George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill, Samuel Clay (Camel) Williams, Clinton W. (Chesterfield) Toms and Benjamin L. (Old Gold) Belt. Acting in concert (though legally disassociated since American Tobacco Co.'s trust was dissolved) they had just upped the wholesale price of their cigarets from $6.40 to $6.85 per thousand (presumably on the strength of the new Cellophane wrapping). Then, all unknown to Messrs. Hill...
...last year, added little to the offensive power of the Indians last weekend after the first surprise had worn off. From the result of the Lafayette game, one would almost say that Jack Cannell is purposely nursing his team along slowly in the hope that it will reach its peak on the successive Saturdays when it meets Yale and Harvard...
...prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor ones and write a full-size thesis. Scholastically, Princeton is at its peak, the Depression perhaps having had something to do with making the students take brain-training seriously...
Already obvious is the fact that 1918 marked the peak of employment in the U. S.; 1929 the peak of production. If all U. S. factories were running today at 1929 production, half of the 12 to 14 million now out of work would still be unemployed, note the Technocrats. One hundred men. they show, working steadily in less than a dozen U. S. brick plants, can produce all the bricks the country needs. To produce all the commodities which the U. S. requires, the individual worker needs to work only 660 hours a year...