Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey's artistic talents reached their peak in his decoration of the Student Memorial Union. A spacious lounge with picture windows overlooking the Fox River below, a moderately-priced grill open 12 hours a day, and a Terrace Room for dances are the Union's chief attractions, and they are strange ones. Some on the faculty think the lounge is a little too inviting and the dances too frequent for a seriously scholastic college, but Pusey and the students are well pleased with their new building...
...comeback was slow. For months, the surviving work force of 13,000 did little but rebuild U.S. staff cars to get money to reconstruct the smashed plant. Under Fritz Koenecke, 54, a wartime synthetic-rubber expert, Daimler-Benz production has risen to almost 25% more than its 1938 peacetime peak; its work force is now 35,000. In 1951, Daimler-Benz led all West German auto makers in value of production (800 million Deutsche mark, or $190 million), this year expects to produce 1 billion ($238 million) worth of autos and trucks. Already better than one-fourth of its production...
Author Stackpole follows the old Nantucket industry to its peak in the 1830s, when the search for whales had long since taken the ships into the Pacific. There, Stackpole believes, a Nantucket master named Captain Christopher Burdick deserves credit for being the first to sight the Antarctic continent. Others discovered new islands, gave them Nantucket family names, e.g., Gardner, Starbuck and Swain Islands...
...watching it. By resurrecting the pageantry of the days when Britons lived for the Crown, the Coronation will renew their pride in the democratic revolution that has been worked inside the forms of monarchy. The delerious celebration will refresh peoples whose economic and cultural capacities have either passed their peak or not yet reached...
...Viva! Viva!" It has been about 15 years since De Gasperi dug his climbing boots and pickax into an Alp, but he still suffers the mountaineer's fever-the looking for other peaks to climb while still chivvying and picking his way up the peak beneath his feet. "He always sees the next summit," explained a friend. Last week in Genoa, where bombed-out ruins of the past are still visible behind the shiny new fagades of the present, he stood before a mass of dockworkers and shipworkers...