Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heaven would lose all its charms for me if I thought should meet nobody there but Americans and foreigners," cried Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, as little brown men beat their palms in approbation last week. Once before he had said: "I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than one run like heaven by Americans...
...Georgia, on the road between Swainsboro and Soperton, a small car bounced along, one night last week. Three men with white sacks over their heads stopped that car, dragged its driver from the wheel, beat him into insensibility with stout pine boards. He, Editor H. M. Flanders of the Soperton News, had written an editorial attacking bootleggers. Several years ago, he had been shot and wounded for a similar editorial...
Although Yale, represented by Sabin Carr and Frederick Sturdy, hopes to take the first two places in the pole vault, both B.G. Burbank '27 and F.B. Clark '28 have good chances of placing in this event and either one may beat Sturdy for second place...
...know when we'll be through here. As soon as we get a new job to work on we'll hurry to finish this." Questioned as to the merits of the structure, he divulged that this was his beat effort. "It's 10 feet longer than the cage I built up in Andover and it's got the biggest skylight of any cage I know of. The track's two feet narrower than the one up there, but it's 10 laps to a mile and that ought to be plenty for anybody...
...poor struggling banker with but an A. B. and B. S. degree and a post-graduate of University of Grenoble in France, and I am looking for some thing to beat TIME and cannot find...