Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of clearing up a little matter of grammar: the fact that the universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
...whose trunks had been packed, ordered them unpacked again. Many a Cuban plebeian, unconscious that the national honor had been saved, learned with ogreish interest of how an iron screw was slowly turned in the Santiago prison last week. The screw tightened a steel collar fitted with an iron spike and encircling the neck of Quesado Castillo, a Negro who had murdered his wife and daughter. At 6:03 a. m. the garrote began to contract. At 6:11½ a.m. Castillo was pronounced dead...
...implications as referendum questions so often do... Small wonder it is that under such conditions the voice of the people turns out to be a babel of discordance like unto that which was heard on the plain of Shinar when men sought to build a city whose tower should spike...
Lusty Bavarians cheered at Nuremberg last week one whom they hail as "Our King"-the onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. He, clad in a field-gray uniform, spike-helmeted, reviewed with Prince Oscar of Prussia (rep resenting Wilhelm of Doom) and the great Feldmarschall von Mackensen (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924) a mammoth parade of several thousand former Imperial officers and Reichswehr troops...
...afternoon President Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar?not just the usual lady-like dab?and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington...