Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inch-wide strip of hide from a freshly killed rhinoceros. Let the strip age a little and toughen. Then have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
State Senators snoozed through the Johnston trial. The citizens of Oklahoma City were so hardened to this form of political revenge that even testimony about Mrs. O.O. Hammonds, the Governor's "ewe lamb" secretary, failed to whip up their lagging interest...
...there is to be, the telegraph companies now appear to have the whip hand. R.C.A. radio circuits terminate at New York on the East Coast and San Francisco on the West Coast. Blank of its stations is the whole interior. Not only can it transmit no domestic messages, but all messages from the interior for radio transmission abroad must be relayed to the coast over Western Union wires. Tentative, temporary are R.C.A.'s "agree ments" with these companies. Therefore, to escape this bondage, R.C.A. Communications has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for 67 wave lengths to be used...
...give 10% of the purse to a victorious rider. To this Mr. Coffroth adds $5,000. To the winner's trainer goes $5,000 from the Coffroth coffers. James Wood Coffroth. once a boxing promoter, operates Al Hippodromo. He knows how rich purses (paid in U. S. dollars) whip up the sporting appetite...
...which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan, at Paris (TIME, Feb. 18), appointed a subcommittee of two, last week, presently enlarged it to five, and then let the days slip past, while Chairman of the Subcommittee and Chief of the British Delegation Sir Josiah Stamp struggled vainly to whip into shape an agenda or program outlining how the main committee should go about its business...