Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musicians. Blessed with a concert master from the Minneapolis Symphony, Deno Geanakopolos 5G, the organization (particularly the string choir) played consistently well all year long and with precision and richness of tone. Even that problem child of the orchestra, the horn section, improved steadily and reached its peak in Friday's performance of Siegfried's Rhine Journey...
Busy as a beaver, he estimated his peak output at 350,000 words a year, occasionally resolved to ease off. "My New Year resolution," he swore to Ego at the beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...
...underdog. It has a record of no victories and two defeats the first time a Harvard crew has lost twice in one season since Tom Bolles took over coaching in 1937. Its first loss, to Cambridge on April 19, was not unexpected, as the English crew was at peak form, while Harvard had just begun its season. Last Saturday's loss to Princeton was an upset, however, and the hopes of the Bolles-coached eight look especially bleak this Saturday as Penn has been the only crew to defeat the Tigers...
...stock market kept right on going up-despite the news from Korea and the certainty of stiffer controls on business. Last week, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose more than four points to 259.08, a new bull-market peak...
...slackening demand that has piled up inventories in many another industry. Another bullish factor: British oil trouble in Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS). Up to new highs scooted Continental Oil, Cities Service and Amerada Petroleum; in three days Jersey Standard jumped seven points to 115¾, a new alltime peak...