Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riding the crest of a 32-0 massacre of Princeton last week, the Yale freshman football team comes to Harvard today at the peak of its form and poses a serious threat to the Yardlings' three-game winning streak in the "little Big Game" at 2 this afternoon...
Faith Without Belief As with most Nobel awards, it came to a man whose career is past its peak. Sartre at 59 re mains an authentic hero for French intellectuals, including those who most despise him, and he is one of the few 20th century philosophers whose names^ are at least vaguely known to the public. His drama and fiction (No Exit, Nausea, The Roads to Freedom) are deservedly remembered, his formal philosophical works are read only by specialists and masochists...
...commercial jets, believes that the company's real future lies in outer space. He has already begun preparing for other work at the firm's long-profitable Minuteman ballistic branch, which last week won the company two Government contracts totaling $21 million but is past its peak as a profitmaker. Boeing has also converted the defunct Dyna-Soar branch to space research, is in the running for a contract to build a manned orbiting laboratory, and is building a $15 million space research-and-development center as the next step toward landing more space-age contracts...
...settle there. A tough, cocky breed, the citizens of Britain's only European crown colony speak breakneck English and a kind of cockney Spanish, follow British soccer as avidly as the bullfights, and pride themselves on their stiff upper lips, the view from their 1,400-ft.-high peak (Africa is only 20 miles across the straits), and the fact that the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home was one of the best governors they ever...
...ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their path. The time difference between pulse and echo, shown as a peak on a tiny oscilloscope (like a one-inch TV tube) held in an assistant surgeon's hand, indicated the distance of the probe's end from the object in Jimmy...