Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over in six months; that auto dealers had been told to hold on to their dead business for a few more months, because the war would be over then; that the real reason Washington had stopped expanding war plants was that the U.S. did not need any more to whip the Axis...
...characterizations ring true and furnish many laughs. Allan Tower, who plays the part of the Big Bad Businessman, has the curious aura of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" about him and the end of the play finds you surprised that he has produced neither a long black mustache, or whip...
...than $3000 a week before in its history--this time it got $8000 the first week. Hundreds were turned away at each evening performance. Now that the picture has arrived at the U.T., it behooves every Harvard man who hasn't seen it to drop his exam studying and whip over to the local emporium. And the odds are 10 to 1 that those who have seen it once will want to enjoy it a second time...
When the crowd got its first glimpse of Alsab, pounding past the stands, he was in next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness...
...Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published in 1940): ". . . Greenland is practically one continuous and nearly perfect landing field for planes equipped with skis. Most of the inland ice is good for wheels, too. . . ." Greenland's chief obstacle is not cold, snow or ice, but variable, stormy winds which whip the high plateau...