Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent last summer in Chamonix filming a complete ascent of Mont Blanc, will give an illustrated lecture based on the work of the summer, showing colored slides as well as the film showing the complete climb from his Chamonix hotel to the summit of Europe's highest mountain peak. The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Christ Church, will be given for the benefit of the church charity fund...
Life's publishers believe that its circulation, which has dwindled from a peak of 250,000 to about 100,000, will be resuscitated by the change; that many more persons will buy and read an improved magazine once a month than now buy and read it every week...
...other Eastern rivals. Stanford, with two defeats by Southern California and California smirching its record, nevertheless boasts of a powerful attack which should put the two opponents on an even basis in case of wet conditions. Unfortunately for the visiting Westerners the Big Green aggregation is at the peak of its form; two weeks ago it laid low an undefeated Cornell team, and previous to that showed great strength against Harvard and Yale...
...genuine renaissance. What Mr. Mumford said in "The Golden Day" is more nearly true than any expression he uses in "The Brown Decades," that "a genuine culture was beginning to struggle upward again in the seventies." That culture had not then and indeed has not now, reached its peak...
...hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald Cook). The part (like Svengali) gives Barrymore magnificent opportunities for acting with his eyebrows. His ocular agitation reaches its peak when the young man falls in love with an amiable blonde (Marian Marsh). He persuades the girl to go away with a Count, the young man to return to his ballet. Finally, on the night of a grand première, Barrymore is murdered, with an ax, by his musical...