Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentrators in the Field of Economics give the Department a clean bill of health. Faculty calibre is rated high and courses seem adequate except in one instance. This field can safely be called at its peak for the present, being respected by foreign economists as the leading one among United States Colleges...
...hotel on a mountain peak just inside the Italian border, an international collection of travelers are interned until Rome has time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport...
Thus at the peak of her popularity did Lucrezia Bori, 48, quit the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. She announced last December that she would retire at the end of the season, said then that she had planned to leave when she was 45 but had stayed on to help the company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm...
From the Blue Eagle's death last May to the peak of the autumn upswing, the Annalist index of business activity' rose from 79.3 to 94.8, highest point since the spring of 1930. In the first two months of this year the Annalist index lost about 40% of that 1935 gain, partly because of bad weather, partly because of a sharp drop in automobile production after the year-end. Having passed its winter low, U. S. business was once again on the rise last week, and, though flood conditions will undoubtedly distort the standard business indices...
...trunk about waisthigh, let it drip into buckets. Some 12,000 farmers are still collecting pitch by gashing their pines with "catfaces" and having it distilled into 80% of the naval stores produced in the U. S.* In the early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this process which Newport and the naval stores division of Hercules Powder have used to- build...