Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children learn the word "no" early, use it more & more frequently as they grow older. Just as rapid is the rise in the number of questions they ask. The number of commands issued, on the other hand, reaches a peak at the age of 4, declines slowly thereafter. Girls show a faster general rate of development than boys. They ask more questions, issue more commands, say more "noes," do more gossiping. Boys surpass them only in fondness for meaningless words, babblings, gurglings, imitations of animals...
...receivers on their prompt rehabilitation of the company, terminated the receivership, handed the company back to its management with liquid assets greatly increased. All creditors had been paid in full within eight months. Christmas sales had been the biggest in history, sales for the full year biggest since the peak year 1930. Said Judge Fake: "This was the most successful receivership in the history of this court...
Alexander Wollcott's retirement from The New Yorker occurred at what many observers considered the peak of an extraordinary career. Once the ranking dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns...
Squash activity is reaching a peak during the examination period while all the other sports without exception are lessening their schedules. Today the Varsity B team will meet the Union Boat Club while the C team confronts the Milton Club. The Freshman C squad travels to M.I.T...
...outsold garishly advertised Camel (33,800,000,000) and Lucky Strike (33,000,000,000). Old Gold was a poor fourth with 5,500,000,000. Total consumption of the leading four was up 8.4% from last year, but nearly 7,000,000,000 below the 1930 peak. Chief reason for this drop, according to Standard Statistics, was competition from 10? cigarets (Paul Jones, Wings, etc.), mentholated brands (Spud, Kool, etc.), and the Phillip Morris English Blend...