Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church Anglicans call high churchmen "spikes" (for their sharp, uncompromising churchmanship). Under the "merry monks"-as the low-church Episcopal Chronicle called them-St. Mary's became one of the great spike churches of the U. S. It used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps in its shrine of Our Lady, reserved the Blessed Sacrament (i.e., kept it on the altar for adoration), bought fancy vestments by the trunkful. It celebrated such rare feasts as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin. The church was perhaps the only one in the U. S. which maintained...
This year's Varsity, despite the loss of Spike Chace, will again be one of the strongest in the country. A Senior, Bill Rowe has assumed Chace's stroke oar. Rowe stroked his Freshman crew and for the past two years has held that position on the Jayvee crew...
...there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year...
Biggest event of Villard's boyhood took place on September 8, 1883, near Helena, Mont., when in the presence of Indians, Civil War generals, Cabinet officers, editors, barons, ambassadors and financiers, his father drove the spike that completed the Northern Pacific. Three months later his father was bankrupt. Biggest event of Villard's manhood was the collapse of Wilsonian liberalism. Between these two catastrophes he studied in Germany, took over his father's paper, the New York Evening Post, when he was 25, fought for woman suffrage and good government, backed Wilson so ardently that disillusion...
...double occasion marked the victory of Stroke Bill Rowe's crew on the Charles and official tribute to Stroke spike Chace's eight which last year out rowed every opponent, climaxing the season with a victory over Yale...