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Word: pike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a month ago, AECommissioner Sumner Pike said he doubted whether atomic power plants could ever make electricity cheap enough to be commercially feasible. Thomas thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Opening the Door | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Reporter Shannon's articles, running in the Journal this week, began with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Over & Over & Over | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

ROBERT G. PIKE La Canada, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...William Bauer of Kingston, Ont. caught a 32-inch pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...While eating lunch on Manitoba's Brereton Lake, Jim Turner of Winnipeg let an orange slip overboard. Before he could recover it the fruit disappeared. A few minutes later, Turner heard a violent threshing in the reeds near shore, rowed over and gaffed a northern pike that was slowly choking to death with an orange stuck in its throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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