Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their time at training camp, have been rowing late in the afternoon, often coming in several hours later than would be possible on the Charles. With so much time at his disposal and a squad free from the distractions of Cambridge life, Coach Whiteside has a splendid opportunity to whip his eights into shape before the crucial regatta on June...
...faithful comptroller who stigmatized an act of Parliament as "unfortunate" is no supercilious lordling but plain Tom Henderson, a labor M. P. with only a grammar school education who has been the Scottish labor parliamentary whip since 1925. "Tom" is not to be confused with "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, potent foreign secretary...
...horse chariot team. Crack Brigade came on behind them. Alcibiades was the first to drop back; that left it up to Tannery, but Tannery could not hold the pace either. Gone Away and Gallant Knight were going strongest now, and the jockies on both of them were using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder and gave Gallant Fox a cut, and although Gallant Fox was wide on the turn, the others, saving ground inside, did not gain. They still had to run the length of the stretch, when a ruddy gentleman sitting in a glass pagoda near the finish...
While Mr. Baruch was speaking, two events were occurring which gave his suggestions unusual timeliness. First was that U. S. security markets, reflecting the continued gravely depressed state of trade, again dropped precipitately (only to whip upward with the new week-8,279,000 shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, 2,545,400 on the curb). Second, that in Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce was finishing its 18th annual convention (TIME, May 5). As the nearest approach to an organized stabilizer of U. S. Business, the Chamber reported its observations (including President Butterworth's description...
...Heathen, ridden by Frank Coltiletti who, because his mount was whip-shy, urged him down the straightaway and under the wire with wild yells and cowboy whoops; the $10,000 Harford Handicap at Havre De Grace...