Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wasted, for John Barbee was in fine fettle, both on the slab and as a batter. His single manufactured the only run that Harvard needed to win, as his good right arm yielded but three infield hits to the invaders. No Brunswicker reached second base, and only four left spike marks on the first sack...
...Pease and giant Guard Raphael, Columbia downed Williams. Kaplan, Pease's understudy, did well as a field general, ran the team intelligently, tallied two touchdowns. Score: Columbia 26, Williams 0. On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech...
...almost every business organization and the silent improvement of most of the public. Up to date its existence has been precarious. Mr. Lomasney the political boss of the West End, although he was instrumental in putting through the very costly widening of Cambridge Street, did his best to spike this project when it, at last reached a legislative hearing...
...devise and launch the homeric spectacles at the Hippodrome, has directed his first picture. The expansiveness of the movies seems to agree with him. In the generally entertaining document he starts with the purchase of Manhattan Island for $24. Later events develop into a fairly normal gang picture with Spike reforming and marrying the little angel of the slums...
...Tucson and Cochise, Ariz.; but in the late afternoon the mountains were reached, over which a wind was whistling jauntily. High in air climbed the dirigible, entering the Dragoon Pass; there was a great peak just as high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around, her propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment, was the course. Then the little...