Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Robert A. Taft: "It is almost impossible to put an administration out of office at the very peak of a boom...
Died. Alvin Jacob ("Jake") Powell, 39, rough & tumble onetime outfielder for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...
...pair of Brooklyn Prep stars with the Bears, Joe Paterno, quarterback, and Frank Mahoney, end, reported for today's light drill and Fred Kozak of Fall River is near peak form as a result of the work he was able to do against Western Reserve...
...cool, keen eye for the construction of things in nature and on paper makes Karasz' designs consistently acceptable, but like any artist she hits her peak only occasionally. One of the best papers in last week's show, a linear, oriental-seeming study of ducks in long grass (see cut), was inspired just back of her Brewster, N.Y. house. "We had a pair of yellow ducks," she explained, "and the children were chasing them. All I had to do was put it down. Things often come that way, but of course I understood how the blades of grass...
...Many an oldster still complains that the U.S. has lacked a classic youth's magazine since the death of St. Nicholas (peak circ. 100,000) in 1939 and Youth's Companion (500,000) in 1929. But the best of the late, lamented St. Nick, edited by Historian Henry Steele Commager, will be published this month by Random House...