Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition, we did not get to the top of a single peak, for our sole object was to locate the mountains. Some of these peaks are the most impregnable I've ever seen, and one as yet unnamed peak, over 14,000 feet high, had one absolutely vertical cliff 6000 feet high. If they ever try to climb some of these, I hope I'm not around...
...collection, which took a number of years to complete, contains books, pamphlets, manuscripts, Acts of Parliament, and other material pertaining to the speculative mania which swept over England in 1711 and reached its peak...
...remembered that today included in this figure is nearly 1½ billions of working balance in the Treasury and nearly 4½ billion dollars of recoverable assets. Dwindling Deficit. "As things stand today, and in the light of a definite and continuing economic improvement, we have passed the peak of appropriations. Revenues
Professor Rosenau was named as one of three men responsible for the development of the science of preventive medicine to its present high peak. The author of numerous books and pamphlets on medical subjects, the University awarded him an honorary degree of Master of Arts...
...should be no surprise to learn that Ibsen is definitely dated. His battles have been fought to a finish on the lines he marked out and if society has not attained the peak of liberal rationality which he desired it is at least clear that the urban theatre goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment...