Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still sternly kept regular office hours in her 70s. Mrs. Rinehart once shrewdly appraised her own honorable journeyman status in letters: "If I agonized like a Chekhov over my work, and I did, the resemblance...
Starting off with a good production of Beaumarchais' Marriage of Figaro, which toured all seven Houses and the Union, the HTG reached its peak in April, 1951, with a compelling production of Kingsley's Darkness at Noon, which had a run in Sanders simultaneously with the play's Broadway run. Resourceful designer David A. Hays '52 coped with the inadequacy of Sanders by constructing his sets on two revolving stages. The show was rightly described as "undoubtedly the finest undergraduate drama presented at Harvard in more than two years...
...rate, the "renaissance" was well under way. The HDC reached its post-War peak in the spring of 1956 with its Sanders arena production of Miller's Death of a Salesman. This was an absolutely top-notch show of extraordinary depth and polish--fully the equal of any professional production the play has ever...
Weld concluded that the whole trip was "a wonderful experience for all of us," both the tennis and the socializing. The team was not always in peak condition because of the many parties, and, as this year's varsity captain remarked, "Often we'd meet their drinking team and then their tennis team...
...whether they could commit themselves so heavily, that it had accepted less than the required 5% margin in some cases. Actually, the firm's part in the bond slide was small. It financed only about 3% of the $10.3 billion marketed by the Treasury at the peak of activity. Though Wall Streeters feel that Garvin was singled out among many Street houses that did the same thing, they expect the case to bring tighter regulations, thus prevent any recurrence of speculative dumping...