Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the match was over, Gonzales had plenty of cause to be worried. At the peak of his game, Lew Hoad anticipated returns like a mind reader, served with devastating power, and blasted aging Pancho off the court. 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. The old king of the tennis world had a young pretender to contend with...
...humid, glass-roofed main salesroom of London's famed Sotheby's (pronounced Sutherbees) auction house. Prize catch of the lot was clearly Peter Paul Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. A 10 ft. 9¼ in. by 8 ft. panel painted by Rubens at the peak of his powers in 1634 for Louvain's Convent of the Dames Blanches, it is considered by dealers not only the best Rubens in Britain but the most important old master to be put on the block at Sotheby's in over 30 years...
...whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...
Easy Pickings. The drop in prices was largely seasonal, although the surplus was the result of the revolution in egg raising. Not only do today's hens lay twice as many eggs per bushel of feed as their grandmothers did, but their peak laying period has been prolonged. The new, automated egg operations have made egg raising so easy that virtually every section of the country now mass-produces eggs. The Southeastern states until five years ago were major egg importers; they are now major exporters, and many Southern eggmen predict that in a few years they will raise...
...Churchill, who has "longjumped" (broadjumped) 23 ft. 6 in., should take his event and Gilligan, an 8:84 two-miler, will win if he can hold off a determined Benjamin. Oxford's Donald Smith, who has done a 1:49.4 880 would be the favorite if he were in peak condition, but he is not. Yale's Tommy Carroll should triumph here...