Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mathematics, physics, electronics, botany and practical inventions, from 30 to 34. What about Thomas Alva Edison, who was still making highly practical inventions in his 80s? No exception, says Dr. Lehman. A breakdown of the number of patents Edison took out year by year shows a Himalayan peak of activity in his 30s and only molehills later...
...goods and services was at an alltime high rate of $372 billion, unemployment was the lowest for any July since the Korean war began, and consumer spending was still keeping pace with the steady rise in personal incomes. Manufacturers' order backlogs, down about $5 billion from the September peak, still are almost four times as great as before Korea. Even such sick industries as textiles were showing signs of recovery. In ironic contrast to the pessimism of cautious capitalists like Odlum, the C.I.O.'s top economist, Stanley Ruttenberg, felt sure that the boom would roar on unabated...
...already on the downgrade in their early 203. But the curve of a girl's growing need for sex (or the breaking down of her inhibitions) rises only slowly in her teens,* keeps on rising slowly until she is 29 or 30. Even then there is no sharp peak: the curve levels off, leaving a smooth plateau until age 50 or 60. But the man's curve keeps on dropping, i.e., his need for sexual activity generally declines while the woman's stays fairly high. This, says Kinsey, is one of the difficulties he has found...
Green toothbrush may soon go the way of pink toothbrush. Just at the peak of the chlorophyll rage, U.S. toothpaste makers are beginning to switch to "enzyme inhibitors," developed at Northwestern University's Dental School. The new theory is that tooth decay is caused by enzymes (i.e., chemical agents produced by bacteria) turning sugars and starches into acids. Last week Lambert Co., Colgate, and Block Drug Co. were already hard at work on new anti-enzyme toothpastes, hope to have their new products on the market this fall. Said the American Dental Association: "The value of anti-enzymes . . . still...
Hitler's best as a vote-getter was 99.81% Ja's in 1936; Stalin's peak was 99.73% Da's in 1946. Last week Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, the man in the iron cot, topped them all with...