Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, we would be led to believe, regards these few days as the solution for a winning team, the difference between one wooed by the Rose Bowl and one which cannot win a major game. In addition, she believes that they will provide just that margin necessary to whip the boys into such superlative condition that innumerable broken arms and bruised toes will be prevented...
Geologically, the situation is simple. Oil is taken out of off-shore pools by building piers or artificial islands and drilling downward (which is likely to ruin the beaches) or by whip-stocking down slantwise from the shore. Politically, it is more complicated. Standard Oil of California owns or controls virtually all of Huntington Beach and a good share of Long Beach and Wilmington Beach. Standard is as much of a political issue in California as Southern Pacific was 25 years ago. Standard's foes in the State Legislature, led by excitable Senator Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank...
...months ago, the Legislature passed a bill that was Mr. Merriam's personal solution of the problem. It provided for a State Lands Commission to receive bids; but because it prohibited all drilling except by whip-stocking, the chief company that could submit bids was Standard Oil. Culbert Olson blew up. He will probably be the next Democratic candidate for Governor; Frank Merriam will probably be the Republican candidate. No Californian doubts what will be the prime campaign issue...
...where he studies the symphonic and operatic classics and learns how to shake a stick at an orchestra. Then he graduates. But that is only the beginning. Assigned to the staff of an opera house, he spends years rehearsing choruses, teaching singers how to sing their parts, helping conductors whip scenes into shape. Eventually, if he shows talent, he is allowed to conduct an opera or two. Only after a long term as a full-fledged opera conductor does he attempt the exacting business of conducting a symphony orchestra. Conducting opera is like driving a 20-mule team, gives...
Early in the Great Depression, President Hoover pledged industrialists to maintain wages in spite of falling prices. Since he has assumed the whip, President Roosevelt has continually tried to force wages higher as a prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...