Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred one crew candidates tramped through the snow to Nowell Boathouse last night to hear stern words from Coach Tom Bolles. "Every rowing college in the country is out to beat us. We can make any college's season a success by losing to them," he said...
...Laughter. He was reassuring. He hinted strongly that he could reach a peaceful settlement in his present negotiations with the radio networks. FM? Television? He was "keeping an open mind on those questions." He made it plain that James Caesar Petrillo had a heart which beat for the public. He and his musicians were perfectly willing to make records for home phonographs; they refused only because 20% of the product was used by radio stations and jukeboxes without payment of royalties to the musician or the union...
...going got too tough, the Secretary stole away for a game of croquet. He liked occasionally to putt around a golf green but croquet was his favorite relaxation. "[It] may seem namby-pamby but it is really a very scientific game," he wrote. He became very expert and once beat the champion "of a certain section of the United States." But in his last years at State, he had to give up the game. "My doctor required me to taper off, which probably proves that it is more strenuous than most people think...
...Managua's sun-baked plaza, cadets from the military academy paraded one day last week in spotless white uniforms. Bands tooted the national anthem and the drums beat out a salute as President Victor Roman y Reyes and his boss and nephew, General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans...
...sell soybean oil to margarine makers. With Southern Democrats to support cotton men and soybean farmers pressuring Midwest Congressmen, planters thought they had a good chance to get the tax killed. Cried white-haired Charles G. Henry, council chairman of the margarine committee: "We are finally going to beat this bunch of reactionary dairymen...