Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many an editor presumed that her newspaper column would die a natural death when she left Washington. But "My Day," the chatty daily diary of her travels, opinions and dinner conversations, is currently running in 75 newspapers (at its peak it averaged 90) in the U.S. and abroad. Mrs. Roosevelt writes a monthly question & answer page for McCall's magazine. Before this year's U.N. session, she was doing five radio interviews and a half-hour television show every week...
...Radcliffe girls study harder than Harvard men? Perhaps not, but statistics show that over the weekend at the peak of exam period, the girls took out approximately 1000 reserve books from the Radcliffe Library, to the 3000 circulated by Lamont. This means that the girls borrowed more than one book each, while not even every student at Harvard took out a book. The usual number of reserve books taken out of Radcliffe, however, runs about 3500 a month...
...executives. Median earnings of the male graduates at the time of the study were $4,689 a year, more than double that for all men in the U.S. "Our college graduates earn more money almost from the first year on the job than the average man makes at the peak of his earning power," the book says. "In the population at large, the peak period comes in a man's late 30s and early 40s . . . Our graduates get wealthier as they get older, while the average man begins declining after 45. Among our graduates the very oldest group...
Official indications were that lowered enrollment was mainly responsible for the drop in February graduations. Total enrollment now stands at about 4,300, compared with the College's post-war peak of 5,200. In addition, the number of veterans carrying accelerated programs has decreased tremendously in the last two years...
...HAVEN, March 16--"The boys were tired and definitely over their peak," said swimming coach Hal Ulen last night, "but they did well ... and they'll do better next year...