Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runs the show is scholarly, affable, 37-year-old Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham, one of the nation's ablest news men. A Christian Scientist and a Rhodes scholar, he worked for the Monitor over seas and in Washington before promotion to his present job three years...
...times in winning the three-mile championship for the fourth year in a row. Time: 13 min. 53.7 sec. It was the first time Rice had failed to set a new world's record at the A.A.U. meet. Probable reason: during the last mile and a half one spike worked up through his shoe...
This gruesome assortment of musicians has been using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer's Face. Jones's name for it: "A very violent comic type of music...
...Perelman's life reads like a picaresque novel. It began on a bleak shelf of rock in mid-Atlantic near Tristan da Cunha. Transplanted to Rhode Island by a passing Portuguese, he became a man of proverbial strength around the Providence wharves; he could drive a spike through an oak plank with his fist. As there was constant need for this type of skilled labor, he soon acquired enough tuition to enter Brown University. He is chiefly remembered there for translating the epigrams of Martial into colloquial Amharic and designing Brooks Bros.' present trademark, a sheep suspended...
...choosing Joseph Stalin Man of the Year, TIME not only hit the nail on the head, but sunk a spike in one blow. Stalin stands for the Russian people, for what they are and for all they have done, the way they've done it, their guts, patriotism and downright loyalty to him as a leader in a country at war. The Germans fight like devils, but the Russian people, all of them, are fighting like all hell and their fight is in the name of Stalin. In him has the impossible been attained-for a second time. Whether...