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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese sent thousands of their sons to war after Pearl Harbor, and they won a proud record. Bolstered by a high literacy rate, steady solvency (U.S. tax revenues for fiscal 1958: $166 million), a dedicated interest in government (average turnout at the polls: 90% v. 60% mainland presidential peak), the fabled land of polysyllabic kings, brown-skinned women and languorous beauty-supercharged with its brilliant mosaic of cultures-has now opened the door on a new epoch for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HAWAII: The Land & the People | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Instalment Credit Conference in Chicago searching for new prescriptions to satisfy the U.S. consumer's insatiable craving for credit. During the past decade, personal income has increased 69% to $354 billion, but consumer credit has bolted 201% to $43 billion. New installment loans in January hit an alltime peak of $3.8 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CREDIT: For Everything | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Delany has given peak performances every week. After a long season of running, he should not have to produce any excuse for withdrawing. Besides, he is an amateur, by any definition of the word an amateur cannot be required to compete against his will...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

Like Pioneer IV, Wall Street's bull sped into uncharted territory last week. As trading on the New York Stock Exchange boiled up between 3,900,000 and 4,800,000 shares daily, Dow-Jones industrials hit a peak of 611.87, or 175 points above the 436.89 low of a year ago. Not even tough news could jolt it. The index gave up only 2.35 points on the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike (see above), closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: If & And | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...dive, rising Crimson sophomore Eric Johnson, whose excellent show in the Yale meet provided the only varsity first place, will go against a host of equal calibre divers from the eight other schools. Johnson, the varsity's second diver at the season's outset, has steadily improved to a peak in practice this week...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Varsity Swimmers Will Compete In Eastern Championships Today | 3/12/1959 | See Source »

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