Word: peak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disciples. Quirks of custom and filigrees of doctrine, thunderbolts of power politics and showers of private revelations, have split and fissured the masonry of the church time and again throughout the centuries. The Protestant Reformation triggered a chain reaction of Christian fission that reached its explosive peak in the New World; in 1900 the U.S. had no fewer than 250 different kinds of Christianity...
...never has appeared on Saturday (it now comes out Tuesdays). As publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair for publishing. Starting with a weekly called the Tribune and Farmer, Curtis, with some help from his wife, moved in 1883 into the neglected field...
...missile, the efficiency of the engine is limited by the quality of its fuel. And as chemically fueled engines approach peak efficiency, the fuel they require becomes increasingly difficult to manage. But a nuclear rocket-in which hard-to-handle hydrogen will be heated by an atomic reactor-would offer ample recompense for its built-in problems. Its thrust, Seaborg explained, would be far greater than that available from any combination of chemical fuels; it would open the way to space voyages impossible with any other missile...
Toward the Peak. Kramer should have no trouble keeping his part of the bargain. The current U.S. tour started out as a box-office bomb; in a crowded Augusta, Ga., during the week of the Masters Golf Tournament, only a handful of spectators turned out. But attendance is now picking up, largely because perennial Champion Gonzales is finding Newcomer Gimeno a tough man to beat. As the tour swung into the Midwest last week, Gimeno trailed Gonzales by seven matches (12 to 5) and he was growing more confident daily. "In two more years," said Gimeno...
Putting their fingers to the wind, after first running their eyes up and down the latest charts, Government economists last week set the date when they expect the recovering economy to regain its former peak: the end of August. If their calculations are right, the recovery would be one of the swiftest in recent U.S. history, following a recession that already ranks (in percentage of decline) as the mildest. Measured by the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production, recoveries to pre-recession highs since 1919 have taken between five months and 17 months (see chart). If the present recession...