Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faced by one of the toughest schedules in the Crimson's gridiron history, the Harvard coaches will get busy early with the list of aspirants in an attempt to whip a creditable eleven into shape for the first game...
...devout Christians, heartened by their priests and pastors, have been called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
...Jimmie Rodgers' songs was called "Whippin' That Old T. B." A doctor told him he could never whip it if he kept on drinking, prescribed a codeine formula to allay his pain. But it was too late then. Last year in Manhattan tuberculosis whipped Jimmie Rodgers into his grave...
Since then, according to Lord Snowden, Britain's Conservatives who hold the whip hand of majority over Scot MacDonald have made him their creature to such an extent that: ''They will have no use for him at the next election, except the use that is made of a reformed drunkard at a temperance meeting...
...cost $,.000,000, included the world's largest photomural (600 ft. by 20 ft.), an outdoor show called "Roadways of the World," performances by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra four hours a day for twelve weeks. Lean, gaunt Henry Ford was on hand in shirtsleeves the opening day to whip his spectacle into working order. He noticed a 10-year-old peering at the mechanical exhibits, volunteered to conduct him and other moppets through the place. "Mr. Ford," interrupted an officious secretary, "you're not going to get any place today, going like this. We can give these boys...