Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year, unfavorable weather conditions brought down the national crop to a bare sufficiency for Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade...
...Fellow Americans, West Point is not turning out today any group of blood-thirsty fighters. The men who are about to be rewarded by diplomas are not products of an unbalanced militarism. These young men are sensitive, what though their cognomens be "Spike" or "Biff", and they have not a little Cambridge in them to balance the West Point. Remember what I have said in the next war. The cadet of today is the general of tomorrow"--West Point Commencement Address...
...impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of our position. Sergeant Nave's detachment (you remember they used to call him 'Heady' or 'Spike' Nave back at the Point) is down to its last thesaurus. There of our casulties are in the romance language division. We are being shelled as I write. The sulcide squad, as we call the English department, was virtually annihilated at 3.30 P.M. on Tuesday, when an enemy Gotha let fall a flight or poisoned shakespears. My aide, Corporal Jones, (he hasn't done so well since he left the Point after his team lost to Harvard...
...stands watching Meyer that afternoon were several men who had driven racing cars when they were younger. Of these the richest and most noted was a gentleman of French descent with a spike of a mustache, a lined face, thick neck, and popping black eyes-Louis Chevrolet, godfather of an automobile...
...Sect. 1 Sever 23 Mr. Fox's Sect. II (Berkowitz-Howard) Sever 23 Mr. Fox's Sect. II (Jewell-Snelling) Sever 21 Mathematics 3 Harvard 2 Mathematics 12b Sever 30 Mineralogy 10 Mineral Lab. Music 1c Music Bldg. Philosophy 1 Emerson D Physics 4b Batchelder-Sicari Sever 17 Spike-Willis Sever 18 Physics 6b Harvard 3 Slavie 1a Harvard 2 Spanish 2 Sever 24 THURSDAY, JUNE 7 (IX) Economics 15 Harvard 2 Fine Arts 11 Fogg Small Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 15a Fogg Small Lect. Rm. French A Mr. Nicol, 1 Sever 35 Mr. Brooks, 2 Sever 36 Mr. Kelsey...