Word: pike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another group of summer school pupils will spend five weeks near Colorado Springs in a Geology field course, visiting the summit of Pike's Peak, the San Luis Valley, Loveland Pass, and other points of geologic interest...
...breaking into journalism on the Philadelphia Press, was inspired to perpetrate a monumental hoax. With rich detail he told readers about one Pierre Grantaire who made a good living by raising and selling spiders for the spurious cobwebbing of wine bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that...
Also saluted were these counties: Columbia, N. Y.; Davidson, Tenn.; Pike, Miss.; Shawnee, Kans.; Dallas, Tex.; Los Angeles, Calif. Doubly saluted for maintaining previous high standards was El Paso County...
...Lineup: HARVARD ANDOVER Coleman, Irwin, Grace, Homans, r.w. r.w., Tenney, Davis, Poor Perkins, Winslow, Ogle, Muther, c. c., Hazen, Pike, Adams Watson, Downes, Graves, Eaton, l.w. l.w., Furber, Foster, Blanchard Roosevelt, Thompson, r.d. r.d., White, Seymour Francis, Wood, l.d. l.d., Hunt Schrafft, Freedley, Gordon, g. g., Rounds. Jones Referess--Ayer and Hughes. Time--Three fifteen minute periods...
...broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down to the point where it might pass as platonic. Much more faithful to the original are the characters of Effingham Swan, hairy-handed but carefully-manicured Corpo commander who says, "Just take...