Search Details

Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

After their defeat at the hands of McGill Wednesday evening it is impossible to judge what the Varsity hockey team will do against Princeton tomorrow night in the Arena. The Crimson skaters have shown great potential strength all year and seem to have reached the peak of American college hockey this winter. But they didn't show the final push last year and despite an influx of new players only Ford and Watts exhibit the necessary fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET WILL FACE TIGER TOMORROW EVENING IN ARENA | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

...months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Packers' Profits | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...last week, the U. S. art season was at its peak. In Manhattan there were no less than 70 exhibitions in progress. The public could see and buy practically anything it wanted. On 57th Street Edward Bruce was exhibiting the landscape technique and Chinese perspective he developed under the watchful eye of Maurice Sterne. Sir Francis Rose, Gertrude Stein's latest painter-protege, was showing his sultry canvases. The Museum of Modern Art was aflame with Van Goghs, Cezannes, Toulouse-Lautrecs. At the New School for Social Research Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Brackman, John Sloan and Alexander Brook were impressing their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Scene | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...Harvard men living in Cambridge a set of Christmas seals accompanied by a plea to keep the seals and return a dollar. That Harvard men respond nobly to such demands is shown by the fact that in 1930, the record year, 2300 Crimson dollars were solicited away. From this peak contributions have declined slowly every year to the 1933 figure of $1689.81, a sum collected from 1713 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Contributions For Health Fund Exceed $1,000 | 12/19/1934 | See Source »

...number of visiting scholars also shows a slight decrease over the peak figure of last year. Though the number of such scholars is large, 637, the majority of them stay with us for only brief intervals and the bulk of their visits falls during the summer, when it is easy to accommodate callers from outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Library is Still the Seventh Largest in World Says Robert Blake | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Previous | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | Next