Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peak circulation of the Chatterbox annual came in 1920 when 148,000 copies went to British girls & boys, 12,000 to children in America and the Dominions. Last year the monthly issues were discontinued, but the Chatterbox annual is still printed like a bound volume of a magazine, so that the instalments of serial stories are scattered piecemeal throughout the book. For Christmas 1936, Dean & Son have printed 30,000 copies of Chatterbox. In keeping with the times it features streamlined trains and aviation, but still carries old-fashioned school & cricket stories...
...women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist into a spying stoolpigeon...
...favorite in this traditional series, there is one other important consideration which whittles down the Eli edge-on-paper into a negative quantity, namely that the Harlow-coached squad is still on its way up, while it is generally acknowledged that Ducky Pond's team reached its psychological peak at Princeton last week...
With this solid backing the Premier of China celebrated his 50th birthday, and the peak of his career thus far, by hurling a kindling speech at his excited friends and countrymen: "My Government has overcome the twin menaces of Communism and Chinese disunion. We can wholly dismiss any insinuation that some exterior Great Power is needed to help China maintain order within her own borders. Forward, fellow citizens, to revive our old national traits of self-reliance, of self-government, temperance and self-consciousness. Show the world that the Chinese people can do great things...
...fame and fortune Goldman Sachs reached an unenviable peak in 1929 under the domination of Waddill Catchings, leading apologist of the New Era, co-author of The Road to Plenty. It was the imperious Mr. Catchings who led the conservative old house into the investment trust fireworks of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge Corp. When his road to plenty ran up a tree, Mr. Catchings got out, joining his old friend, Utilitarian Harrison Williams...