Word: peps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the Nazi-controlled European stations are hooked up with Grossdeutscher Rundfunk so that propaganda of the New Order can flow smoothly out of Berlin. Each week the Nazis spray Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Bulgaria with 187 network newscasts, 363 pep talks in German. To the rest of the world, in 31 other languages (including Arabic, Frisian, Gaelic and Esperanto) they air a weekly total of 1,266 news bulletins, 303 Goebbelsian reports...
...strictly against the rules to feed a race horse little white pills to give it more pep. In baseball, not so. Last spring Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals began dosing his players with vitamin B1 pills. Last week, as the baseball season neared its eighth week, the hopped-up Redbirds were going lickety-split in the National League pennant race...
...good old U. S. A. and the good-neighbor policy thrown in, but a new note is sounded by singer Kathryn Grayson as Andy's "secretary." She draws considerable applause with her pleasant soprano voice, but has yet to give her operatic and popular renditions some everyday pep...
...Phil. 10 Lewis moves into his medium. For this and his Kant course he is known. As usual, though, the lectures are slow and lack any pep-appeal. The reading is sound, interesting, but definitely difficult. And if you decide to learn all about Kant, and take Phil. 15, it is a good plan to have a few snap courses to go along with it. The course is absolutely grueling, with a paper every week. But you come out knowing Kant, and this is awfully handy on divisionals
...Mikkolamen is the hurdles. Captain Don Donshue, who excels in both high and low hurdles, is probably the outstanding member of the team. In the words of Mikkola, he is wonderful." He set the Harvard 220 yard hurdle record last May at 23.6 seconds; moreover, his spirit and pep are extremely infectious. Roger Schafer has run 5.9 in the 45-yard high hurdles, and Don MacKinnon, last year's Yardling captain, is always certain of placing...