Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confessed that they were a mere disguise. The man who four months ago was Republican nominee for Vice President was last week so wrought up by Mr. Roosevelt's change of tactics that he wrote and signed an editorial in his Chicago Daily News which expressed the peak of Republican apprehension. Excerpts...
...peak of the season the Crimson crushed an Exeter quintet, 46 to 32, and the latter team nosed out the Elis by two points. By reason of these games, the Crimson five will be slightly favored
...work of the British-American party which last summer reached the peak of Nanda Devi, the highest summit ever climbed by man, will be outlined. The mountain, 25,660 feet in elevation, is located at the source of the Ganges river, and is considered by Hindus a "sacred mountain...
...suspect that in the hearts of each one of us we had a feeling of being already sunk. . . . We saw in perspective a nation committed to a social and economic program which made its costs of manufacture emerge from the level of world costs as the tip of Pikes Peak emerges from the surrounding Rockies. . . . Yet it was a nation engaged in the promotion of trade liberalization. . . . We did not know at this time that, within a few days, we would be informed that the Japanese bookings of American business for 1937 had reached a sum total of more than...
...their company had earned full dividends on its common stock for the first time in five years. Since 1930 this $5,000,000,000 enterprise has maintained its $9 annual dividend only by dipping freely into surplus. The number of Bell telephones in service dropped from a peak of 15,500,000 in 1930 to 12,700,000 in 1933, earnings from $12.57 per share...