Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the 70th century, when the great Castilian dramatist CalderÓon de la Barca wrote the most sumptuous of all the autos sacramentales (Belshazzar's Feast, The Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...
...Snell believes that the U.S. has not yet felt the full benefit of heterosis. The peak year of foreign immigration was 1907, but many immigrant groups tend to marry among themselves for a generation or two. The groups are now breaking up, Dr. Snell says, and the U.S. may soon have an outburst of hybrid vigor comparable to Elizabethan times...
...fourth quarterly report Mobilization Boss Charlie Wilson announced a significant change in the arms program. Peak year will not be 1953 as planned...
...airlines, wisely, did not adopt a public-be-damned attitude. To ease the pressure at La Guardia the airlines serving New York reduced daily flights from a peak of 725 to 454. Eastern Airlines' Eddie Rickenbacker, picked by the industry as its spokesman during the crisis, said: "I want the public to be satisfied...
...years, Lidove Noviny (People's News) was Czechoslovakia's best newspaper, often favorably compared with the New York Times. Politically independent, the paper built up a large staff of foreign correspondents and a list of notable contributors (Thomas Mann, Winston Churchill, Karel Capek, Leon Blum). At the peak of its influence in the '20s and '30s, the Lidove Noviny had a circulation of 80,000 and always made money...