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...help of his two sons, he moved the new pigs into the open lot. He picked up one, looked at it carefully, and shook his head. "Pigs and hogs are the mortgage payers," he said, "but these pigs aren't much good. Look at 'em, no pep. They're just weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rain & Weak Pigs | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Coop de Tote." Hummon was not abashed. He got the legislators together for a pep talk, gave them a piece of oratory distinguished mainly by his unique pronunciation of coup d'état. Hummon made it "coop de tate." He went on the air to cry that radicals were plotting to "destroy the dominance of the white race in the South"-and to suggest that his followers mail in nickels and dimes to pay for the radio time he had used, a matter of $1,637.66. To demonstrate his innate kindliness he even got himself photographed giving a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Double Trouble | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...After dinner the house guests collected in the big baroque hall to see a very reasonable facsimile of professional theater. . . . Then came a pep talk in Howard's English accents. . . . He warned that M.R.A. is 'no rosy glow of cosy revival' but 'costly revolution and colossal renaissance,' and illustrated the point by saying that his own change had compelled him to apologize to his younger brother for past meannesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions at Caux | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...burst of terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning (as a member of the British group called PEP). But most UNESCO delegates thought the choice of Huxley was one way of luring reluctant Russia in; without her, every body agreed, UNESCO was a half-cooked goose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: World Brains-Truster | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Endicott "Chub" Peabody, 2nd '42, and Chief Boston will give pep talks from the steps of the Athletic Building, and the cheerleaders will explain a system of flash cards that will see their first use in the Yale fracas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Rally Slated Tonight | 11/15/1946 | See Source »

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