Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purple era of rail construction was paling before the War, but it did not end until 1931 when Arthur Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
...spontaneously and never discursively. . . ." Even in the White House he never dictated or used a typewriter, "and the number of letters he could indite with his own heavy fist was limited." The two best and most-famed letters in this collection are telegrams. When his political enemies tried to spike his campaign shortly after his nomination for the Presidency (1884) by exaggerating the truth about his "illegitimate son," he wired a Buffalo supporter: "Whatever you do, tell the truth." When William Randolph Hearst wanted to add his name to a list of prominent citizens endorsing Hearst's proposed memorial...
James Roosevelt's assumption of political power has severely galled State leaders. There has even been talk of a bitter feud between Son James and Senator Walsh. Last week young Mr. Roosevelt attempted to spike such gossip as follows: ''I have a personal genuine affection for Senator Walsh. ... I recognize him as the leader ... in Massachusetts. . . . No effort ... to strain the relations between us will be successful and I am looking forward with keen anticipation to the pleasure of supporting him . . . for reelection...
...bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty Turkiya Hassan at Port Said's Al Salaam Missionary School, Egypt was threatened with still another Holy War. Vexed, Turkiya Hassan walked to the police, cried that...
...limit and dilute with water. This Charlie Payson did, but the engineers later sued for $500,000 as their pay for the plan. Charlie Payson stoutly maintained that the scheme was developed in their own laboratories. The suit was settled out of court. Meantime the tariff was changed to spike just such smart ideas...