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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calculated that they could twist their transmissions right over the top of mountains and other obstructions with out building repeater stations on top. They set up a weak, 15-watt transmitter 45 miles south of San Jose, Calif., on the other side of Loma Prieta, a 3,798-ft. peak in the Santa Cruz mountains. Then they pointed their transmitter's beam of 1,855-megacycle waves in the general direction of San Jose. When the beam was aimed too high, its waves shot off into space; when the beam was too low, its waves were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Party-Line Computers | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...Crimson tallies while the defense learned how to handle Rutgers attackman John Valestra. Valestra singlehandedly kept Rutgers in the game with four goals and six assists, but he did most of his damage in the first half before the body checking tactics of Straus, Grannis, and Kessler were at peak efficiency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Stickmen Break Even Against Tough Southern Teams | 4/9/1962 | See Source »

...personal life in the joy of his art together served to brighten his palette. By the end of his life, when his thoughts were concentrated almost exclusively on eluding madness by pouring himself forth in paint with all the joy he could evoke, his color reaches its peak of vibrant warmth and his canvas achieves its greatest vitality--almost more living than life itself...

Author: By Michael S. Gruen, | Title: Vincent van Gogh | 4/9/1962 | See Source »

Screamed London's evening paper headlines": FARES SHOCK! Sprouts & Privacy. Last week fare shocks and Tiddlydike nostalgia reached a record peak. Dr. Richard Beeching, the blunt, brusque businessman hired-for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant-to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dr. Beeching's Bitter Pill | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...billion in the past year, interest rates are easy, and the reserves of banks have swollen since savings rates were raised from 3% to 4% this year. But capital spending for the year is expected to rise only to $37.2 billion, which is just a shade above the 1957 peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Strong -- But Sluggish | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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