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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recovery must proceed, however, beyond the 1953 business peak to be satisfactory, he warned, Since the country has greater economic needs than in 1953 and greater production capacities, failure to rise above 1953 levels would be a "disgraceful condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slichter Forecasts Improvement In American Economy During 1955 | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

Eliot, with 48 percent of its members pledging 226 pints, leads the House contributions. Close behind are Dunster and Leverett with 39 and 38 percent respectively. The progress of the drive reached its peak last night when over 450 pints were pledged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Pledges Rise to 1800 As Eliot Leads Other Houses | 10/29/1954 | See Source »

...example of advanced arrogance there is none to beat Clifton Webb. He sneers with such patent grandeur that, in Laura, one would never suspect that just before he had been a partially aging, and totally opened a career for him that found its peak in the now Waldo Lydekker, raconteur, bonvivant and egomaniac, opened a career for hom that found its peak in the now legendary Lynn Belvedere...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Laura | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...movement reached its peak in a jingle attacking both Case and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Charles Howell. Sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice (and with particular relish by the fiery-eyed, thin-lipped women who belong to an organization called Pro-America), the ditty went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: A Political Microcosm | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...basis of his present form, French should be one of the favorites to win the Heptagonal championship, three weeks from today. Wills, improving weekly, is reaching his expected peak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Out-Run Penn, Columbia, 20-56-60 | 10/16/1954 | See Source »

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