Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker's horse Orby won the 1907 Derby...
...already been whistling for eight weeks in a steep slalom around such) formidable obstacles as reports of record farm income for 1937, miscellaneous bullish statistics, encouragement from the Federal Reserve Board and optimistic comments by Governmental bigwigs. Last week, having dropped a breathless 55 points from the summer peak of 190 set by the Dow-Jones industrial averages on Aug. 14, the market did a graceful telemark around still another formidable obstacle-prosperous third-quarter earning statements...
...Snow was already under the tractor treads of the slowly advancing Rightist tanks; fogs and rains made aerial bombing almost impossible. Whipped on by El Caudillo ("The Chief") Franco's demands that "Gijon must fall before the snow," Rightist troops did capture a vitally important strategic peak on the Gijon front, but the city was still 30 miles of rough terrain from its attackers. Gijon refugees reaching France last week reported "the city is near starvation...
...live one's life over again, second thought choices might not bring more happiness, they might bring less. To prove both points the play provides some metaphysical speeches and a time-machine. Stephen Minch (Burgess Meredith), inventor who has made a fortune for his employer, has reached his peak with the invention of a "star-wagon" which will return its driver to any desired point in the past. Nagged by his wife Martha (Lillian Gish) for his resigned poverty and fired by his employer, the inventor throws the switch of the star-wagon, and is instantly transported...
Finance and Law. During this period Douglas took his only fling in the stock market on margin. On a tip he put every available cent on a stock then selling at $9. In two weeks he sold it at $28.75. This was the peak and a few days later the stock was back to $9. Douglas had a fat profit but his analytical mind shuddered over the thought of what might have happened...