Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inquiry, then, must follow its originally planned course. In some ways this may seem unfair to the Army. From the beginning, when interest was at its peak, Secretary Stevens was subjected to endless cross-examination by McCarthy. According to the Committee's ground rules, Army counsel Sherman Adams must take the stand next. Thus, long before McCarthy and Cohn testify, the hearings will have lost much of their novelty to many viewers. But to change the order of witnesses, the Committee would again have to compromise with McCarthy, and any such compromise would only strengthen his position. The Senator must...
Most disturbing of all is the patriotic propaganda which reaches its peak with two divisions of soldiers and WACs embarking for overseas with a song about "do or die for the good old flag...
Whenever he thought about those three Rocky Mountain peaks, Geologist Leslie W. LeRoy of the Colorado School of Mines got mad. In 1869, it seemed, some Harvard professor had come along to survey the Colorado Rockies, and with typical Ivy League impertinence had named a few of them. The highest peak he measured thus became Mt. Harvard (14,399 ft.), the next highest Mt. Yale (14,172), and a few years later, a third peak naturally was named Mt. Princeton (14,177). Not one Colorado peak bore the name of a Colorado campus...
Last week, accompanied by three friends, Harr climbed to the top once again, there solemnly planted a banner with the strange device, "M." Henceforth, Mt. Harvard, Mt. Yale and Mt. Princeton will have company-a proud peak that will soon appear on the maps as Colorado Mines...
...early 19th century, notes and mortgages predominated (60 percent of the total investment in 1831), but from 1850 on, they were rapidly replaced by bonds. Bonds, which were not even mentioned in the 1831 report, steadily climbed until they reached a peak of 73 percent of the portfolio...