Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak of influence, modernism was an intellectual movement involving at most a few thousand avant-garde Catholics in France, Germany, England and Italy. The church nonetheless moved to suppress it as if a phalanx of Luthers were in its midst. Pius' encyclical Pascendi ordered that all seminary teachers who were tainted by the heresy be fired, required bishops to take other stern measures to eradicate the spiritual disease. Loyal Catholics suspected of involvement with the movement were forced to issue humiliating public denunciations of modernism...
...volume on the New York Stock Exchange climbed to a new record, 58,194,770 shares, an avalanche that strained the facilities of banks and brokerage houses. The Big Board's year-old composite index of all common-stock issues on three straight days eclipsed its May 8 peak of $51.93, reaching $52.18 at week's end. Reflecting a suddenly renewed popularity among blue-chip issues, the better-known Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day for a 27.51-point gain on the week to 909.56, only .07 points below its 1967 high. Since July...
...time bike racing may well be the world's most agonizing sport, and the pressure reaches a peak in the Tour de France-2,990 miles across the plains and mountains under a midsummer sun. Understandably, competitors often take a little something to boost their strength and spirit. Sometimes that little something is a little illegal...
From there, says Dr. Nicholas Mayall, director of Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, "we will be able to study star systems in a different state of evolution from our own." In addition, such observations will clarify man's understanding of universal distances, and provide optical studies of many radio sources for the first time. "By studying the Southern Hemisphere," says Mayall, "we will find if the distribution of radio objects, such as quasars, is even, uneven, clustered or what. If the observations show that quasars are not uniform but are instead clustered around the north and south...
...York Stock Exchange, prices also climbed last week, propelled by the highest weekly volume on record: 57,386,715 shares. By two of the most broadly based barometers, Big Board stocks rose close to their alltime peaks. The N.Y.S.E. composite index of all common stock issues rose from $50.91 to $51.60, an 18% gain since December 30, only a mite below its May 8 summit of $51.93. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index moved up from $91.69 to $92.74, compared with its May 8 record of $94.58; it is up 18% for the year so far. The more familiar...