Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhealthy emphasis on grades." Here is a problem that Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their peak demand for admission to last longer than in the College. Nonetheless, a greater emphasis on activities, more efficiently run activities, a Student Activities Center--in general, more official interest in the extra-curriculum, might help to alleviate what it known, in quotes, as "student apathy...
Vegetable seed sales were slipping. At the peak of Victory-gardening enthusiasm in 1944, when the U.S. had an estimated 22 million gardeners, vegetables accounted for nearly 75% of all seed sales; now they were leveling off to a peacetime norm of slightly more than 50%. But vegetable growers, too, had plenty of novelties to choose from. Almost all seedsmen were featuring a new brownish-tinged lettuce called Bronze Beauty. Other attractions: a midget watermelon (Schling), a hybrid eggplant (Burpee), a yellow sweet pepper (Manhattan's Peter Henderson), a "giant tree tomato" (Vaughan's of Chicago...
...Varsity wasn't up to its Columbia peak, but it didn't have to be. Complete Crimson mastery of both backboards proved a decisive factor in the victory, as the highly-touted Jack Colberg, Penn center, was obscured by Hauptfuhrer and colleagues underneath the basket...
...Emerson Radio likewise took a dim view of the size of the market. In the first big break in radio prices, it reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model. There was little doubt that department-store buying, which had lagged since Christmas, was well down from the peak. Last week's sales were only 9-13% in dollar volume above those of a year ago. Counting the price rise in a year, current unit sales are probably below last year...
Unless economy-minded Congress forces a cut in military plane orders, Dutch Kindelberger hopes to have his peacetime eagle full grown by year's end, with 14,000 employees on the payroll. (Wartime peak in the West Coast plant: 24,000.) By then, he also hopes, his bird will be paying for its keep...