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...rare position of avenging a loss to the Bruins and will be well aware of what can happen if there is a letup in effort. We may be entertained by some fine running by both sides, and by at least one halftime show. Cap'n Crunch put his whipper snapper to work on this one and decided on the Crimson...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aluminum Destroyers | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Whipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

That the members of these colleges should get down on their knees each day in prayer for "Godless Harvard" I resent as a piece of unwarrantable impudence,--of sanctimonious smugness,--of orthodox whipper-snappery. To me their prayers sound strangely like the prayers of that Pharisee, who "went up into the temple to pray" and stood, saying "God, I thank the I am not as other men are." W. J. NICHOLS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carloads of Prayer | 1/24/1924 | See Source »

...game will come out as I think they made a big mistake putting it on the same day when the Eagles plays there national game of asparagus with the whelps on the bowling green at Gloucester. There is the contest that will draw the crowd and how can you whipper snappers thinks you can pay expenses is a misery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

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