Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial writer for the Edinburgh Scotsman. Two years later, when he was planning to get married, he looked about for additional sources of income. He entered a contest, the object of which was to find a successor to one Annie S. Swan, who was about to retire at the peak of a successful career writing "romances for factory girls." Campbell submitted two stories, one under a pen name, the other under his fiancee's name. The stories won first and second prizes, and his fiancee was offered a contract, as first prizewinner, to become Annie Swan's successor...
...when Mr. Truman became President, the Soviet Union was exhausted ... Our Air Force was incomparably superior to any other. Our Army and Navy were superb fighting forces at the peak of efficiency. Our industrial plant was intact, and we alone had the atomic bomb . . . But our leaders wholly failed to realize the nature of Communism . . . Their policies at Yalta and Potsdam established Stalin in full control of Central Europe, dominating Europe, and in full control of China, dominating Asia...
Even though L'Humanité was back on the streets last week, it still had plenty of troubles. In France, where all newspapers have been losing circulation, no group has dropped more drastically than the Communist dailies. L'Humanité alone, once at a peak of 600,000, has fallen to an alltime low of 190,000. Ce Soir, the party's afternoon paper, is down to less than one-third of its 1947 circulation of 433,000. There are also signs that the new Communist "get-tough" policy for France leaves little room for weak papers...
Exam crammers sweltered yesterday, but things should be cooler today meteorologically speaking. Wednesday's maximum, the highest of the year, reached a sticky 85, some 11 degrees below the peak for the date recorded...
Balance what the Hose relinquished against what they gained. They lost an inconsistently powerful, hopelessly clumsy first baseman, a utility infielder clearly past his peak, an outfielder who failed to stick with two other clubs, a perennially "promising" left-handed pitcher, and a young third baseman with his career still unassured...