Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business reached its peak during World War II. In August 1911 the first soldier was married, and during 1942, 42 out of the 59 husbands were servicemen. Since the Navy had taken over the Yard in July, these grooms were predominately Navy officers...
...peak of informality was reached at 9:59, when all one hundred musicians, in the midst of a big crescendo, suddenly rose, closed their music, and left the stage just in time to beat the Musicians' Union's deadline...
...awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it. It is a reply which bursts forth from mature and calm consideration of only one aspect of the universe, namely, its mutability. But this is already enough to make the entire human race, which is the peak and the rational expression of both the macrocosm and the microcosm, become conscious of its Exalted Maker, realize that it belongs to Him . . . and then, falling on its knees before His Sovereign Majesty, begin to invoke His name...
...Jordan added that he wasn't "discouraged," and his team proceeded to vindicate him in the very next game, which saw the Crimson holding and beating Army. The spirit and fight of the Crimson team, consistently high all year, reached a peak against the Cadets, just when they might well have collapsed permanently...
...chili con carne for Hormel. From the original cannery, Flotill has grown to three plants-two at Stockton, a third at Modesto-covering 67 acres, using more than 25 freight cars of tin cans daily, packaging 75,000 cases of 77 different seasonal items, employing 4,000 workers at peak season...