Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which made Ty Cobb "greatest baseball batter of all time." which enabled Prizefighter Jess Willard to "triumph over" Prizefighter Jack Johnson, and Prizefighter Jack Dempsey "to whip" Prizefighter Jess Willard. Currently E. Virgil Neal has a cosmetic factory in Paris, one in London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries." He would sell his latest product in the U. S. "if I could find a good man." Three months in the U. S. this autumn...
Karl Krueger, late of the Seattle Symphony, and Nikolai Sokoloff (see above) have two qualities in common. They both know how to whip a ragged orchestra into shape, how to gamble on their caché. Conductor Krueger last week conducted the inaugural concert of the Kansas City Philharmonic, a pay-as-it-goes enterprise boosted by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Kansas City's last symphonic venture (two concerts by the Kansas City Musicians Association) was sponsored by Conrad Henry Mann shortly before he was indicted under the Federal lottery law. Before that the Chamber's favorite...
...unfinished and untested last week, this tube is to bridge the gap between the balls, serve as a channel for the 10,000,000 volts which Dr. Van de Graaff expects to produce. At one end of the tube swarms of protons will be released. The high voltage will whip these particles down the tube against a target at the other end. Dr. Van de Graaff hopes that these bullets will disrupt the nuclei of the target's stable atoms in such comparatively copious numbers† that he will 1) learn more about the ultimate constitution of matter...
...Advisory Council, composed of bankers elected from each of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, for one of its regular four-times-a-year meetings. The advisers, who have no directorial power, retreated to the Mayflower Hotel for consultation. Cozily established all by themselves, the Council proceeded to whip out recommendations to the Reserve Board and its member banks. The recommendation that made headlines: "History shows that the further currency inflation goes, the more difficult it becomes to control and ... it invariably results in untold losses to great masses of the people and the ruin of national credit...
...things." He was anxious to graduate from the featherweight class, of which he is champion, because he has trouble keeping his weight down, because there is not enough money in it. To get a match with the lightweight champion, Chicago's shifty Barney Ross he had first to whip savage little Canzoneri, the onetime champion whom Ross deposed last June...