Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Health Department opposition, then, seems unjustifiable. The present National Biologics Control Act, which gives the government power over the source of the vaccine, should be expanded or revised to allow temporary control over allocation as well. Do Mrs. Hobby and her department expect to wait until the peak polio season is over before they seek adequate controls...
Back in turn-of-the century days, when the Germanic Museum was first planned, German-American relations were at a peak. Gifts from Kaiser Wilhelm II and other Germans were warmly received by Harvard officials. Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beer magnate and the museum's chief financial benefactor, could comfortably proclaim, at an elaborate 1912 cornerstone ceremony, the on vocation, "Forever live the good entente between Germany and the United States." Five years later, just as major work on the museum was completed, America entered World...
surmise-Silent, upon a peak in Darien...
...imagination: for Operation Balboa he briefed himself carefully under Balboa Expert Juan Rubio of the University of Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced three peaks, two about 8,000 ft. high and one only 2,200. With a professional soldier's cool surmise, McDonald decided that Balboa would have sensibly climbed the smaller hill for reconnaissance. McDonald and party scrambled up it and saw the silvery sea. He feels sure that he found the lost...
...March the Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index climbed to 137 (1947-49 = 100), eleven points above a year ago and only one point shy of the alltime peak set in March 1953. Residential construction was one-third higher than in 1954's first three months, and business spending for new plants and equipment in the second quarter is going to increase so much that outlays for the year as a whole will be well ahead of last year...