Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee produced a thoughtful and persuasive report which of itself was no more significant than a thousand other more or less Utopian schemes concocted by academicians in the past. It took on vast importance because it embodied the long-cherished desires of a U. S. President, who, at the peak of his power, had decided to do something about them. Cried President Roosevelt in his message accompanying submission of the Committee's report to Congress last week: "I am convinced that it is a great document of permanent importance...
...Democracy is finished! Democracies today are simply the centres of infection- the tools for Bolshevism. That is one group. We are the other group. . . . Democracy is sand driven by the wind. Our political ideal is a rock like a granite peak. . . . This is the beginning of a new peaceful situation. We have, through it, several years of calmer development before...
...impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson is his cousin by marriage, and over all the Noyes pieces appeared an explicit imprimatur from both the interested parties. U. S. editors were surprised by but had to admire the racy, tabloidal flavor which Publisher Noyes achieved in his articles, reaching a peak in the King's jocular query to Mr. Noyes asking if he had brought a shotgun to "cajole" him into marrying "Cousin" Wallis...
Running away after taking a peak into a strange land at a new day! "Fuzzy twin lights of automobiles are still poking along, far down below...
...northern sky, on the other side of the Pole star from the Big Dipper, is a prominent, W-shaped constellation named Cassiopeia. The bright central star at the peak of the W is called Gamma Cassiopeiae. Of the second magnitude in brightness. Gamma is a hot blue body of some 25,000° C. surface temperature, as against the sun's 6,000°. In the closing months of last year astronomers noted curious fluctuations in the quality and quantity of light from Gamma, which may be throbbing indicators that it is preparing to burst forth as a nova...