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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Ulen has an extraordinary group of speed demons around him this year, and he's fidgeting about their getting trained to a peak too soon, getting stale, and getting over-confident. But down in New Haven, there's a man who's named Kiphuth who's fidgeting a lot harder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

Charles A. Rheinstorm, vice president of American, answered: "It is definitely not true that we have a higher peak on our airway than United has on theirs.'' Mr. Patterson's remark about sunshine hurt Mr. Rheinstorm. "People usually concede that winter weather in the south is better than winter weather in the north, and the only people who are not willing to concede that are the United people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Low Level | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Patterson's "normal airway width" apparently does not coincide with the Department of Commerce airway width of 50 mi. Thus Hayden's Peak (12.473 ft.), near which United's "Mainliner" crashed in October, approximately 24 mi!es south of the centre of United's transcontinental lane, is evidently not considered on United':; regular right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Low Level | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, survivors of the Panay reached Shanghai on her sister ship the Oahu, bringing with them a story backed by newsreel photographs that brought the entire crisis to an even sharper peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Regrets | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Walt Disney wears the Hollywood uniform: lounge coats, open-throated shirts, fancy sweaters. His thick, dark brown hair, which dips to a widow's peak slightly less emphatic than Robert Taylor's, has a long top lock which Disney wraps around his finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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