Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved to be a veritable training school for most of the country's best younger climbers, and Durand pointed with pride to the fact that of the eight men who formed an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, highest scaled peak in the world, six were members or former members of the club. The other were from the British Alpine Club...
...Brayton is a man who may come into the light this year. Whereas Erhard and Wright are coming into their last year of college and intercollegiate competition, Brayton has the advantage of being only a Junior this year, and if he needs another year to bring him to his peak, he can afford...
...Public Health Service last week reported 879 new cases for the week ending Sept. 18, a peak for the year which brought the year's total to 6,391 cases. With cooler weather, however, there was hope for a decline...
There are no meets in the fall. Peak energy is saved up for the indoor meets which start soon after the return from Christmas vacation. No reasonable prophecy can be made this early on the capabilities of this year's Varsity. Less can to said about Freshman. The Upperclassmen are in not too bad a way, however, in view of the facts that graduation took no great part of the team last year and that last years ace Freshmen will supply a happy been to the Varsity ranks...
...Hawaiian Tourist Bureau as the "Garden Isle." There were not many gardens, as far as he could see. Then again he could see little but what the native Louis pointed out from the depths of a Model A which rattled as if it had been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis had a hapa-Pake, hapa-Hawaiian wife; she had had another husband, a Jap, whom she married for his washing machine...