Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright day in 1947 the glory of Lange and Salve reached its peak: a detachment of the Garde Republicaine rode out to an apartment house in the seedy Menilmontant district on the northeastern rim of Paris. The sun glinted on the guardsmen's silvery helmets and on the glossy black hides of their horses. While they held aloft their sabers in salute, while trumpets blared and drums rolled, an officer unveiled a bronze plaque on the apartment house wall: On the fifth floor of this building in July 1940 under the direction of the fervent patriots Lange, called "Alcyn...
...culture may develop further along these same lines. But some students of cultural growth believe that by 1940 it was close to its peak. The lack of new, basic inventions is one proof they offer. Power-driven production machines were still growing more productive, but at a slower rate. According to these theorists, the original impetus given to cultural development by fuel-burning engines was almost exhausted...
...next breakthrough (level three) came in the early 1700's, when western Europeans began using fossil fuels: coal, then later oil and natural gas. Their use in various heat-engines started a new cultural cycle that soon shot far above the peaks of level two. Many fossil fuel cultures might have risen and fallen, but they never got a chance. Before the first of them, our own, had reached its peak, level four began when the first atomic bomb was set off at Alamogordo, N. Mex., July...