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Word: spiked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvey Love has finally whipped together a Freshman crew which should give a creditable account of itself. Charley Chace, Spike's brother, has moved back from his six slide to stroke the '44 eight which whaled the day-lights out of the third Varsity in a time-trial carlier in the week...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Crews, Baseball Team See Action Today | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...years old tradition of graduate coaches went by the boards last Saturday as Yale named Iowan Emerson W. "Spike" Nelson head football coach to succeed Raymond "Ducky" Pond and gave Nelson a free hand in forming a new grid staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spike Nelson Succeeds Pond As Head Grid Coach at Yale | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...society. Under way in Washington were negotiations for a consent decree by which ASCAP would forsake its blanket agreements. Since these blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued brawling bitterly. Still ignored by both the battlers was FCC, oft cited as a possible arbitrator for the feud. Said a spokesman for the Commission : "We look at it more or less this way : It's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: More Trouble for ASCAP | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

This report was no fantasy from the mind of an idle reporter. In World War I Italy used the MAS (motor torpedo boat), the Grillo (a strange naval tank with spike-studded treads for climbing over harbor booms), and the piloted torpedo -prototype of last week's "secret" weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Piloted Torpedo | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...jagged side of the plateau to get a look at the countryside, the Pan Am engineers were astonished to find a surface so flat that little more than smoothing and a bit of leveling were needed. Above the malaria level, the airport surface is so hard that a spike can scarcely be driven into it. As yet, the engineers have found no nearby water supply. After building a road up the steep face of the plateau, Pan Am hired 380 natives (all who could be found and persuaded to work) to build hangars and clear two 6,200-foot runways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Two Days Less to Rio | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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