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Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, the scrub fights his way through an unlighted life, and labors only that another may hear the cheers, that another may have his name listed among the immortals. Beneath the whiplash tongue of professional coaches he has never failed to bend his back to the oar, parrying thrusts till the beads of sweat stood out on his bosom. But when earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, there need be little sympathy for this graduate of the school of hard Knox. The name of the Blackshirt will lead all the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEST WE FORGET | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

...China, they saw a long narrow river, twisted like a silver whiplash, across flat lands to the ocean. The next day they were above the mountains, where it was cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Westward | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Navy opened against the none-too-potent Davis & Elkins. Principally with whiplash forward passes, the government eleven took a 27-0 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...former suavely acid insinuations, and quite convinces us that the entire Workshop affair is after all, merely another absurd and inconsequential eddy in the comic stream that college is. Hugh Whitney's "Ballad", next in order, is exquisitely done and comment seems superfluous Whitney Cromwell unleashes the ironic whiplash of his tongue in "The Salesman", and Charles Allen Smart, in the last of the four distinctly good things in the number, presents a vivid picture in "Exploration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Advocate Approaches Its Highest Standards, Says Reviewer | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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