Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain that John Monroe put in its place was once an orderly peak in Wadi Shaib. Last month, local police patrolling the road to Jerusalem reported that it was walking away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved...
...distant posts. Picketing set out in search of conditions of atmosphere most favorable in "respect to clearness steadiness, and equability of temperature." He experimented at stations between 6,000 and 14,000 feet in the Rockies in Colorado. Performing work at the higher attitude ever attempted including Pike's peak...
...roof of this station is directly on the Continental Divide, and the peak of the roof, uniquely conical in shape to prevent the gathering of snow, forms the water shed between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Yet the station sometimes pays a high price for its locations in the discomfort of its personnel...
Newest of the eight observatories is the station at Sacramento Peak. New Mexico, which is administered jointly by Harvard and the U. S. Air Force. Located at an altitude of 9,200 feet and nine miles by air from Alamogordo, it will be an extremely large solar station. The site has been occupied for five years, but the station is uncompleted...
Measles strikes Cambridge and the eastern seaboard strongly every three or four years, according to Simon B. Kelleher, city medical health officer. This year is the peak of the cycle...