Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Babson's survey, based entirely on Congregational figures, shows that U. S. Protestant church attendance reached its peak in 1880, has since been "running downhill." In 1921 Protestant churches signed up 1,710,000 new members, in 1935 only 990,000. Although other church statisticians have arranged their figures to indicate that total U. S. church membership keeps abreast of the increase in U. S. population, Roger Babson declares that while 12% of the population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman...
...father, Beppe, has been coaching Italian swordsmen for half a century. Beppe Nadi was the best teacher of his time. Aldo's older brother, Nedo, who visited the U. S. in 1930, was considered the finest fencer in the world when he retired two years ago. Reaching his peak after 25 years of vigorous training, Aldo Nadi inherited the family title at 34. Fencing experts agree that he is not only the equal of his brother but conceivably the most effective swrordsman who ever lived...
...were impressive, the first 108 companies to report showing a 43.5% average increase in profits over the same period last year. But here & there first quarter results failed to justify the hopes expressed in high prices for their stocks. And with the normal spring rise in business approaching a peak, both businessmen and speculators were, as usual, concerned with neither past nor present but with the future...
Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pikes Peak, looked forward this week to a cultural renaissance. Due to arrive were such Eastern artistic notables as Painter Walt Kuhn, Manhattan Dealer Marie Sterner, Collectors A. Conger Goodyear, Thomas Cochran and Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Bliss. In an auditorium in a brand new ivory-colored concrete and aluminum building these, and those residents who like to think of Colorado Springs as "the Boston of the West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest...
...during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped as low as 50 during the peak of post-War prices. The French index showed almost the same thing. German common stocks did even worse, the index dropping nearly to 10. When the mark lost all real value it stood at only...