Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good God! Congress, however, was held in session long enough for the Senate to approve the Hoover Moratorium whereunder 15 nations are relieved of paying the U. S. $252.566,803 on War Debts between July 1, 1931 and June 30, 1932. Xenophobia reached its peak when Senator Johnson of California, the Moratorium's arch foe, oratorically machine-gunned the Senate...
...India; faced Josef Stalin with ragged gaps in the Five-Year Plan (see p. 16); failed to produce a Fascist government under Adolf Hitler (potential Man of 1932). But who rose from obscurity to world prominence, steered a Great Power safely through 1931, closed the year on a peak of popularity among his countrymen...
...days to 36, gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after it from Feb. 22 to March 19. Indignant because the new track had been assigned the late February days which are the peak of the Miami season, Sportsman Widener promptly stated that no horses quartered at Hialeah would be permitted to race at Tropical Park; that no owner or trainer who raced any of his horses at Tropical Park would be allowed to race at Hialeah...
...half over. October opinion was that business was "scraping bottom." Since then, bottom has sunk lower. Unfilled tonnage orders of U. S. Steel Corp., industry's major barometer, declined in November to 2,933,891 tons, off 185,541 tons from October, 9,250,000 tons below the record peak of April 1917. It was the first time since 1910 that these orders had gone below 3,000,000 tons...
Washburn's film, the first ever to be made, shows the way in which hardy mountaineers attain the summit of this lofty mountain, the upper ridges of which are almost continually swept by furious storms, which render the peak virtually inaccessible during more than four-fifths of the year. Washburn, along with W. C. Everett '33, camped out at altitudes of 10,000, 12,900, and 15,000 feet on one occasion struggling through snow up to their waists at an altitude of 14,000 feet, where the thin air is a great cause of weakness...