Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the results were incorporated in a graph showing the relation of spinster emotionality to age, the line rose from a low level at the tender age of 15 to a peak at 25. This was followed by a shallow dip at age 30 and another peak at 35. Then came a dip of placidity, with its lowest point at age 45, then a climb reaching the highest peak of all at 60. Author's explanation : "We may perhaps think of the two rises in the curve as associated respectively with increasing tension from the life-problems of sexual...
Noel's first Big Moment came with his first hit, The Vortex. From then on his career as playwright, actor, song-&-dance man, revue writer went from peak to peak...
...incomprehensible title of The Jimplecute. Colonel Ward Taylor had founded this paper in 1856 when his city was 20 years old and beginning to ride high. Its name came from the initials of the sheet's motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Everlastingly." Peak Jimplecute circulation, in the 1880s, was around 5,000. A Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink to 2,515 by 1910. The city still...
Graduating from Yale Theological Seminary in 1833, redheaded, fanatic John Noyes barnstormed New England preaching "Perfectionism," collected a colony of 38 men and 53 women to start off the Oneida venture, which began in a log house in 1847. Four years later membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream...
Approximately 60 former Puritans attended the Winthrop House Annual Alumni Dinner given last night. William F. Loomis '36 gave a lecture and showed movies of the work of the British-American Expedition which successfully climbed Mt. Nanda Devi, the highest peak ever ascended by man. Loomis was a member of the expedition...