Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance reached its peak in the Yale meet in which he took first in every event he entered to become high scorer with 15 points in the hurdles and the broad jump. He will represent Harvard in three events at the Oxford Cambridge meet in July...
...beets, fruit, vegetables, milk, milk products, wool and 2) to pry into the records of all handlers and manufacturers of all AAA products (TIME, May 13). Contrariwise, handlers who hate the AAA have launched a determined counter-drive to make Congress reduce instead of extend AAA's sway. Peak of this agitation came last month when a delegation of New England Governors went to Washington wailing that unless the cotton processing tax was withdrawn, their states' textile industry would be ruined (TIME, April 22). At that time AAAdministrator Chester Davis told a friend: "Well, there...
...midst of this dizzying flood faithful Noahs will observe at least one peak, and landing on it may find more solid ground...
...With the peak load of epidemics likely to rise to five times the normal capacity of the building, it would seem that the duty of Harvard to the student body ended when it provided medical offices and an infirmary as a clearing house. Physicians capable of swift, expert analysis at Holyoke House and ward facilities for non-major aliments such as colds, laryngitis, and the like would fulfill the college's responsibility. Contagious diseases, major operations--such as appendicitis--and infectious skin cases should be referred by the medical advisers to the proper Boston hospital...
Chief reason for expecting a recession before the "great revival" was that automobile production had passed its spring peak. To an enormous extent the automobile industry has been carrying the burden of recovery. Of 26 U. S. corporations reporting March-quarter earnings at the best figure in five years, the Wall Street Journal discovered, no less than 17 were either motormakers or companies dependent in large measure on the motor industry. In the first four months automobile production was about 1,570,000 units, a 37% gain over the same period of last year. Sales to consumers, however, were only...