Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even at the peak of his renown he had great visions. In 1900 he was ready to cure tuberculosis with oscillating electricity. In 1909 he promised motors capable of driving ocean liners at 50 knots. In 1911 it was stormproof dirigibles without propellers. In the last decade his annual utterances have been mostly rehashes of previous interviews, with something new every three or four years. In 1924 he was planning to transmit power by radio. In 1927 he was scheming to harness sea power. In 1931 he would make all fuels superfluous by tapping cosmic energy. Last week Dr. Tesla...
Novae are stars which, in making some obscure internal adjustment, flare up suddenly from sub-visibility, shine brilliantly for days, weeks or months, subside at last into their former faintness. Conspicuous as any stars in the sky at the peak of their display, they are spectacular but not rare, for nearly 40 have been observed since 1900. But the universe has superlatives. Once in a while a super-nova emerges grandiosely on the cosmic stage...
...Technically still a nameless peak. A resolution to call it Mt. Roosevelt failed of passage before Congress adjourned?supposedly because Congressmen discovered that the mountain was only 2,000 ft. high, felt that it was unworthy of so great a name...
...many as 27 out of 100 victims. California's present mortality is less than 1.5%. Why this is so no authority has ventured to guess. In other respects the spread of the epidemic has been typical. It began in May and apparently has reached its mid-summer peak. It shows lighter incidence in San Francisco (90 cases) and Alameda County (106 cases), where the population has been long urbanized and exposed to the disease, than in Los Angeles County (949 cases) where a large part of the population comes from the rural and unexposed Midwest...
...peak Baruch's fortune may have been about $25,000,000. He laughed openly when people referred to him as the third or fourth richest man in the U. S. What is unique for a speculator, he probably has most of his winnings today. His suite of offices was small; he kept no stock ticker beside his desk and held no directorships. Nor did he employ a large staff of economic analysts. When he bought into companies he relied on personal investigations or investigations by a few men he trusted. Notable among such men was General Hugh S. Johnson...