Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resuming spring practice sessions after a week's layoff, Dick Harlow and his staff are back on Soldiers Field again, trying to whip up a satisfactory advance version of the Crimson entry in the Great Antumnal Madness...
...fast-selling book in England last week cracked an angry whip at the public (i.e., private) school system. Called George Brown's Schooldays, and written by Bruce Marshall, * it parodies Thomas Hughes's preachy, sentimental story of life at Rugby, Tom Brown's School Days (1857). The new novel rips the hide from the hidebound educational philosophy that has produced many great men and even more numerous small ones...
...quarter-century he has cracked a sharp episcopal whip over his big (252 parishes), rich (1944 income, $4,000,000) diocese of New York. Last week the 79-year-old British-born cleric, who remained stubbornly unbudging two years ago when he Church's General Convention voted compulsory retirement for bishops at 72', announced that he would retire next fall...
...applause was polite. At least Harry Truman had not disturbed the air of conviviality by any talk of trying Franklin Roosevelt's old political whip, the political purge. And the Democratic Party had got a good round sum for its war chest...
Heavy Bets on Hoss. Scouts from 15 of the 16 big-league teams had knocked on the door of Third Baseman Hoss Hatton's home in Beaumont, Tex. He is 23, has legs like a piano and arms like a buggy-whip, and specializes in line drives that often go clean out of the park. In four years at the University of Texas and two with an Army team, he had hit into but one double play...