Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, its third sales peak period, the industry can also thank the music popularizers who lurk behind every microphone, in every film studio. First peak (365,000 sales) came in 1909, when most cultured U. S. families boasted a piano and tinkling was part of gentle breeding; second peak (343,000) in 1923, when 55% of sales were player pianos. When the industry created a taste for mechanical music, it bred the germ of its own decline. Player-piano addicts soon shifted to radios. Seven lean years and near-death followed. But meantime, radio, once the piano's ruin...
Hampered by the protest weather in years spring rowing at Weld Bost House reached the peak of the spring season with the University Regatta last week...
...incredibly long legs cleared the cross-bar in the Dartmouth meet at six feet, three and a quarter inches for an all-time Harvard high jump record. Although he won against Yale this year and tied for first in the Heptagonal, Captain Bob Haydock has never again reached his peak...
...made in the Easterns which prompted this move, but it is certain that they deserve to be there because their entry will be a strong one. The Hoddermen suffered four 5 to 4 defeats this spring, and it was only over the last weekend that they reached their peak...
...year of total new money to work in each War year. Production doubled between 1914 and 1917, the pace of U. S. economic activity stepped up, the way was paved for the still greater output during the 1920s. In 1926 production was 10% greater than the 1917 peak. U. S. economy has grown in size. Example: Wartime steel capacity was overstrained to produce 40,000,000 tons; present capacity is over 70,000,000 tons. In the grown-up economy, equivalent doses of new money do not produce equivalent effects. In 1938 some $18,500,000,000 of new money...