Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forward wall the picture is more favorable for Emerson (Spike) Nelson, Yale's new line coach. It is enough to say that Captain Bill Stack, at center, looks to be as good as any pivot man in the Ivy League. Flanking him are a pair of Junior guards, Cape Burnam and Jim Dern, both of whom won their letters last year. This trio leaves little to be desired, and Bulldog enemies should find it difficult to avance far on this sector...
...sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett Francis Connely, president of First of Michigan Corp. First Detroiter ever to head I.E.A., socialite "Spike" Connely is also anti-New Deal, believes in letting others shout their antagonism while he does the best he can in sad days for banking...
Claiming the support of the Faculty as a whole, Mr. Conant should be able to see in the future a new flowering in all the departments of the College. Increased security undoubtedly will spike scholarly inhibitions and will produce a livening influence into even the most stolid of them. And this in turn will be related through the introduction of new methods into the undergraduates themselves, which after all, is quite an important consideration...
...Absent from the Conference were nine ailing bishops, including two Southern die-hards:-Bishops Collins Denny and Warren A. (Coca-Cola family) Candler. A Southern movement to spike the merger with a last-minute court action failed to materialize...
...Union Pacific off to a rolling start last week in Omaha, where the Union Pacific got off to a slow start 74 years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday...