Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chris Pardee was jumping on a sprained ankle when he took a first place and two seconds in Sunday's Heptagonal track meet. The injury may leave him below peak from for next Saturday's dual meet with Army...
...eight years, WPA alone produced 18,800 sculptures, 108,000 easel paintings, 11,300 original prints, and 2,500 murals for public buildings. At its peak, it employed some 5,000 artists. As a current exhibition of 83 works at the University of Maryland's art gallery shows, the U.S. got quite a bit for its money...
Except for the illness of hurdler Tony Lynch, the Crimson trackmen have been steadily moving towards a peak conditions. At Dartmouth last Saturday, Harvard's runners clocked some of their best times of the season, and the team performed outstandingly in the Greater Boston meet Tuesday and Wednesday despite the adverse weather conditions...
...true that "tradition tends to embalm the moment in time when the culture feels it is at its peak." Call our generation neopagan, secular or whatever, it is at odds with phoniness and insincerity. Our irreverent generation is not bent on overturning the past, but on crying out against the arbitrary embalming and sanctification of one historical moment. Our American lack of "tradition" is not our national stigma; our innate respect for and optimistic sense of an evolving human experience has been the unsung American contribution to modern civilization...
...number of births in the U.S. dropped to the lowest figure since 1951-3,767,000-while the birth rate receded to the prewar level of 1940. A quarter of a million fewer babies were born last year than in 1964; half a million fewer than in the alltime peak year of 1957. Births still exceeded deaths by a wide margin last year, and the overall population increase was only slightly checked. Total population...