Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symbol. Mills and Smith photographed all the stones and reported to Professor Ignacio Bernal, one of Mexico's top archeologists, at Oaxaca City. Bernal recognized the style of the first stone. It was Zapotec, a relic of a high culture that centered around Oaxaca City and reached its peak during the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Until now, said Bernal, there has been no evidence that the Zapotec culture ever extended as far as the Rio Grande region. The carved symbols on the stone are probably dates, and they may be a help toward deciphering the hieroglyphic writing...
...plane, train and car, thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens...
...evils and shortcomings of society without at the same time pointing out the evils that exist in them [selves]." The purpose of liberal education was not merely to impart knowledge; it was also to "transform personality by transforming minds ... But they [cannot be] transformed ... by materials that do not peak directly to the human soul...
Winfield W. Riefler, Federal Reserve Board economist, reported that the FRB's industrial-production index would probably go down another two points in February from the January figure of 125 (1947-49 = 100). That would mean, said Riefler, that output since the postwar peak last October has dropped about as much as it did in the first four months of the "exceptionally mild" setback in 1948-49-Economist Edwin G. Nourse, who was head of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers during the 1949 recession, told Congress what the current figures mean...
...first is that the 1954 economy is at such a high peak that sales and production, even after four months of decline, are still above the levels from which they started to fall...