Word: pep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they never suspected in themselves. In 1924 the Tribune absorbed James Gordon Bennett's Herald, which the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey had run into the ground, and Mrs. Reid acquired new responsibilities. At 52 she is still advertising director, firing her sales force with 9 a. m. pep talks every Monday and keeping them stoked through Saturday noon. Though her husband owns nearly all of the newspaper's stock and has the title of editor, the Herald Tribune today as a business is largely Helen Rogers Reid...
Give to the Smith girls society and pep...
Indignantly declared Merwil's Publisher Harry Donenfeld, whose line includes La Parce, Gay Parisienne, Spicy Stories, Pep: "Take books like God's Little Acre and Ulysses. The courts have maintained that there's nothing obscene in them. They really describe life...
...these days of flux and change, when Harvard has a President who intends to make it an institution of higher learning, something greater, perhaps, than the pep-and-polish prevalent in the American college, the demands of the University on the preparatory school should be the subject of particular research. The repeated complaints against so many of the Freshman courses such as French 2, English 28, German A, find their basis as much in the failure of the preparatory schools to train their scholars for college work as in the poverty of inspiration in those seemingly necessary interludes...
...convalescing from severe lacerations. The speeding puck caught deGive with his tongue drooping out of his month and succeeded in nearly severing it. Several stitches were needed to restore deGive's tongue to its former glory, but it is expected that he will still be able to pep up the team with chatter in the games. The only difficulty is in swallowing, and he has been put on an egg-nogg diet. Fears that the injury would hamper his speech were unfounded...