Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech that was to last 45 minutes. At times her voice almost died away. Several times the Amazons begged Grandmother to spare herself, but she quelled them with a muttered "Nein! Nein! I will speak on!" It was, as Clara Zetkin well knew, her last grand chance to tongue-lash her ancient enemy Paul von Hindenburg, 84 and unrejuvenated...
Sheriff John Stevens, fat and fiftyish, led the petty thieves to the jail courtyard, fastened their hands over their heads to the jail's window bars. They wore their shirts as the lash cracked down across their backs. Sheriff Stevens puffed and panted. One whip was broken, then an other. A blacksnake whip finished the job. The Brothers Wynn, heads bent but not painfully hurt, walked away through a crowd of gaping country folk who had gone to Millersburg to witness Ohio's first public whipping in more than half a century. Questioned as to his legal authority...
...yard dash--Won by G. F. Hamman '33 (H); second, Rashla (Y); third, H. L. Lash '32 (H). Time 27 2-5 seconds...
...yard relay--Won by Harvard (H. L. Lash '32, Benjamin Sommers '33, C. A. Currier '32, G. F. Hamman '33); second, Yale (Vetteslein, Wickwire, Benedito, Prosser.) Time...
...Carr '34 (W), Fred Lewis '32 (E); 100-yard breast stroke, Gilbert Kerlin '33 (L), H. G. Dillingham '32 (E), H. C. Schwyzer '34 W); 100-yard free style, J. R. Fetcher '33 (L), N. S. Henriquez '33 (L); 200-yard relay, N. S. Henriquez '33 (L), H. L. Lash '32 (W), H. G. Dillingham '32 (E), and J. R. Fetcher...