Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney-General Murphy's pep meetings for U. S. District Attorneys (see p. 16) and the National Parole Conference were occasions in Washington last week calling for speeches by a man whose thin, shrill voice is seldom heard outside the House of Representatives, though there it commands respect: Representative Hatton Walker Sumners of Dallas, Tex., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
During late years we have cheered at our football games, watched our cheer leader essay a few cautious "flips", and we even went so far as to hold a football "pep" rally (horrors!) to show the team our support. A few years back the Harvard riots were thing to be talked about. These are all Joe College activities, and yet we have never stigmatized them by that appellation. they constitute an example of Harvard's regeneration from a played-up, highly publicized and dramatized, artificial indifference which is not nearly so fundamental as we are led to believe...
...would seem incredible or unique to the outsider, for it is a huge pep meeting without any reason for being. The boys just get together--in the words of the founder back in 1895--to experience the "rebirth of the College spirit," or to "pledge their loyalty to the College." They listen to a few speeches, and applaud telegrams which have been sent by Dartmouth clubs which meet simultaneously all over the nation in a sort of mystical unity; they cheer a bit and sing "Dartmouth Undying" or "Men of Dartmouth"; then perhaps they go straight to bed like...
What the Beaverbrook papers do carry, however, is lots of reader entertainment-prepared by the best talent the Beaver can buy-and, most important, a running fire of pep talks and admonitions to the British people: BE OF GOOD CHEER . . . PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES . . . BUY A PEACE GIFT . . . PAY YOUR DEBTS AND KEEP TRADE BRISK...
Generals and lieutenants alike now get a medical going-over once a year. However much he has done to raise the pep quotient, Malin Craig has not been able to do a great deal about age in the upper ranks. He ran into the facts that: 1) it takes a long while to make a colonel; 2) only colonels may be made generals. By last June 30. after two and one-half years of Malin Craig's regime, the average age of 46 brigadiers was down one year (to 59 years, two months): of 21 major generals, down...