Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, "Spike" Gray, as he is called, when confronted with the job of playing at the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Copley Friday night, and a CRIMSON interviewer, didn't mind the unfairness of it all, but merely remarked that he was a college man, very used to it all, and fond of the Hub (but not over fond), comparing the district to a spring tonic (at any time of year...
...France persuaded suspicious Emperor Menelik to let her build an Ethiopian railroad. Not till 1917 was the last spike driven. Since then the road has carried 75% of Ethiopia's foreign trade, and in 1933 returned a profit of 200 francs per transported ton to its French investors, who then owned 20,000 out of 34,000 shares. Part of Pierre Laval's deal with Benito Mussolini last January was the sale of 2.500 French shares of railroad stock to the Italian Government (TIME...
...closer examination of Jaakko's squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor...
...soft glow of colored lights playing on bowers of palm and eucalyptus trees, a comfortable but by no means spectacular crowd of 25,000 began to see the fair sights in earnest. In the Palace of Science was many a 20th Century industrial gadget and the original gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake-City. Mexico...
...Died. Spike, 17, next-to-last surviving carrier pigeon to have served the A. E. F. during the War; of old age; at Fort Monmouth. N. J. The survivor, one-eyed, 18-year-old Mocker, holds the Distinguished Service Medal...