Word: pike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DeLamar Student Research Fellowships: Milton Landowne, 3M., Brooklyn, New York; George M. Pike, 3M., Brookline: Richard L. Riley, 2M., Plainfield, New Jersey; Emmanuel B. Schoenbach, 2M., New York...
...Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that the Navy's last dirigible was rapidly going to pieces in midair. No. 2 gas cell popped open, then No. 9. Girders began snapping like so many pretzels. One rudder gave way and the whole stern seemed to crumple like...
...Negro college has ever grown rich, and Lincoln has fared even worse than such younger and bigger institutions as Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, and Fisk. Its plant consists of a cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...
Before he took York, General Pike had promised the British that his men would not burn or sack it. Soon afterward the powder magazine blew up and a flying stone killed General Pike. On the theory that the British had fixed the magazine explosion, the U. S. troops burnt York to the ground. The burning of York was one of the reasons the British gave for their burning of Washington a year later. Three reminders of the York episode still lay last week in a showcase of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. They were mace, lion and standard...
...Daughters of 1812 provided money for a memorial tablet to be raised in Toronto to "General Pike and the others of the U. S. forces killed in action." Toronto's Mayor William Stewart and his Council had contributed the spot for the tablet on the original site of old Fort York, had agreed to preside at the unveiling ceremonies next July...