Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metre arena. Commandant Francois Lesage of France won first place with his black gelding Taine, as he had at the International Dressage of Geneva last year. A jury disqualified Captain Bertil Sandstrom of Sweden for clucking to his mount (riders must use neither tongue nor whip), awarded second place to Commandant Charles Marion of France...
...fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief job will be to whip steel companies into a strong and united price front, stamp out the buyer's notion that he can always wheedle a profit-sucking concession, encourage him to take on normal inventories. Said Myron Charles Taylor, biggest steelman of all: "... A decidedly progressive step. The Institute . . . should prove increasingly successful...
Sheriff John Stevens, fat and fiftyish, led the petty thieves to the jail courtyard, fastened their hands over their heads to the jail's window bars. They wore their shirts as the lash cracked down across their backs. Sheriff Stevens puffed and panted. One whip was broken, then an other. A blacksnake whip finished the job. The Brothers Wynn, heads bent but not painfully hurt, walked away through a crowd of gaping country folk who had gone to Millersburg to witness Ohio's first public whipping in more than half a century. Questioned as to his legal authority...
Some magazine publishers nowadays behave like pamphleteers. They cup their ears to catch the drift of public conversation, whip together magazines on most-discussed topics?liquor, unemployment, crime, politics, sex?launch them as "one-shotters." If the first issue sells, subsequent issues are published; if it does not, the venture is dropped...
Indifference has for quite awhile been the attitude of the upper classes toward rioting, but until lately freshmen have been able to whip up sufficient enthusiasm. Along with other "collegiate" tendencies, the riot spirit in recent years has been dying even among freshmen...