Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago the School Savings movement reached a slightly dizzy peak when 4,500,000 U. S. youngsters deposited over $29,000,000. In schools throughout the land "home rooms" vied for banners signifying the highest average of depositors. All-city champion schools were rewarded with kind words from superintendents. And any wretched pupil who failed to deposit his weekly dime was disgraced. Since that time, annual school savings have tobogganed to about...
...titles, until last week he had never won a major singles championship. This season, most critics thought from Allison's performance abroad, when he lasted only one round at Wimbledon, lost to Perry, Austin and von Cramm in Davis Cup play, that, at 30, he had passed his peak as an athlete. Day after his match against Perry last week, Allison's opponent was the brilliant, tow-haired, temperamental Sidney Wood, who had reached the final by beating Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had upset ailing young Donald Budge. Faced once more with a chance for a major championship...
This is truly a matter to view with alarm, and without banter we suggest that some of our more ethnocentric loyalists and propagandists climb to the top of Grizzly Peak and bay back at Boston high society in the hill-billy jargon that is all they seem able to understand: just so this matter can be put straight. We are not too enthusiastic about the University, but there are very few movies we enjoy and we believe that Kipling was almost right: south is south, but by God, north is also north. --Daily Californian...
...whose work is creative reach a peak of productivity at 35, except for poets, who bloom earlier, and astronomers, who ripen after 40.-Professor Harvey C. Lehman, Ohio University...
...teeth Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming threw this information: "Infantile paralysis cases reported to the U. S. Public Health Service to date: North Carolina, 558; Virginia, 473; District of Columbia, 37; Massachusetts, 389; New York, 941. The District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina have apparently passed the seasonal peak...