Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General consensus feels that the '49-'50 upward trend will resume. Many institutions expected to reach their peak year by 1954 under normal trends, but are now worrying about how to keep their heads above water. Some 500 small colleges are in serious danger unless they got financial aid soon. They fear that to survive under present conditions would involve lowering their standards far below the one on which they are willing to operate...
Warm Embrace. The only topnotch painter shown at peak performance was Buffalo's Charles Burchfield, who had somehow managed to slip a watercolor into an exhibition of oils. His Dark Ravine was menacing as an abyss by Fuseli, but richer, and lacking all pretension...
...Turkish-Bulgarian agreement of 1925 provided that emigrants could take their movable possessions, sell their fixed property. But the emigrants who crossed into Turkey (a peak of 15,000 in August) brought only personal effects worth $2 each. Said a refugee carpenter: "When I applied for a passport I was asked if I had overdue taxes. When I showed all receipts I was informed that my grandfather Ahmet owed 4,000 leva on a house I'd sold. I told them this couldn't be so, and that my grandfather's name was not Ahmet but Osman...
...York's Harlem, the world's biggest Negro community, the weekly Amsterdam News speaks with a loud voice. But when the Negro-owned-and-staffed News hiked its price from 10? to 15? in 1946, its voice began to quaver as circulation slipped from a peak of 110,000 to around 65,000. In an effort to get the frog out of its throat, the News made a drastic change: for the first time in its 41-year history, it hired a white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley...
...still sowed death & destruction. Forty thousand British troops and a third of the Malaya Federation's budget were needed to hold down 5,000 jungle-wise Red terrorists. Yet Red destruction was more than matched by anti-Red construction. Rubber, tin and rice production stood at a record peak. More significant, the country's long antagonistic racial groups, the Malays and the Chinese, were closing ranks toward national unity...