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Word: spikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty committee stated that "commercial tutoring schools are indefensible from the point of view of any sound theory of the educational process." Reads of nearly all the large courses warned students against tutoring, and devised systems to spike "spoon-fed" information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Renews Measures to Discourage Students Employing Tutoring Schools for Midyears | 1/10/1940 | See Source »

...National City Bank, later tried and acquitted of charges of income tax evasion (but forced to settle a Government lien for $1,384,222, taxes and penalties), who is now board chairman of Blyth & Co., Inc. It had also heard Morgan Partner George Whitney, Detroiter Emmett Francis ("Spike") Connely, president of Investment Bankers Association. Young (31), brash SEC Counsel Pete Nehemkis pitched them questions to which they gave defensive answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Stanley's Four-Bagger | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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