Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radioman Trippodi hung in his chute in excruciating pain. He had come down in a treetop near the peak of a steep, 4OO-ft. incline. Trying to unbuckle his harness, he slipped. His foot caught in the leg strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...
Harvard's hockey team reached a new peak Saturday at Hanover, N.H., by stunning favored Dartmouth, 7 to 3, in a fast, cleanly played game. Ten days prior, the Indians had robbed the Crimson of its Pentagonal League title hopes with an 8 to 5 win at the Arena...
When Knight climbed into the saddle, the News was trotting along with 426,644 readers, 58,000 behind the Hearstpaper. In five years, the Herald-American has cantered to a circulation peak of 548,000, but the News has almost closed up the gap, is now only 6,000 behind...
...units involved are the remaining part of the temporary arrangements made by the University at the close of World War 11 to assist married veteran students in their housing. The number of married students reached a peak in the fall of 1946, when 3,300 were registered. The number has dropped to approximately 2,400 this year, and a further drop is indicated for subsequent years...
...Joey." The problem this time was to keep Maxim from overtraining. With five solid weeks of training before his boat trip, Joey reached his peak three times before the fight and had to be told to rest. But when he returned to his drills in Jack Solomon's cramped, smoky...