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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson senior Richie Friedman, still hobbling from an ankle injury against Princeton, may not be able to play in either the singles or doubles. The other three Harvard seniors may be in less than peak condition because of General Examinations Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Netmen Expected to Top Dartmouth Today | 5/4/1966 | See Source »

...matter. Plisetskaya carried the evening with sheer fire and ardor, at one point wowed the audience by leaping and nearly kicking the back of her head with her foot. Now 40, the long-stemmed Plisetskaya is at the peak of her powers, and she is backed by an impressive stable of soloists, among them some fast-rising younger dancers who have blossomed since the troupe last appeared in the U.S. in 1962. At the end of their three-week Met engagement, the Bolshoi will set out to bring down other houses on a 13-city tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Wing-Footed Feat | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...classic context, tradition tends to embalm the moment in time when the culture feels it is at its peak. British sovereigns ride to their coronations in an 18th century coach with an escort of cavalrymen wearing plumed helmets, and the guards at the Vatican are still dressed in the costumes Michelangelo reputedly designed for them. It is impossible to imagine a guard of honor for a U.S. President dressed as Minutemen. For Americans believe profoundly that the best is yet to be; that whatever it is-a building, a custom, an institution-they can do it better next time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Tradition, Or What is Left of It | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...currents in the moon. These, in turn, generate a weak magnetic field which-like the earth's-is probably distorted into a cometlike shape and may even have its own collection of energetic electrons for Luna to detect. The presence of these electrons would be characterized by a peak of radiation every three hours-each time Luna passed through the lunar tail on the antisolar side of the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: Terrestrial Tail | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Extention of the paging service would probably serve to reduce congestion at the circulation desk during the peak hours of the afternoon, Sasso said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener May Institute Night Paging Service | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

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