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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...coach, have been working outdoors since vacation and are slowly getting organized. The Freshman defense held quite consistently during the match, but the attack was somewhat wavering and ill-tinied. Witherspoon's men face one of the hardest schedules in recent years and are bonding every effort to whip into shape as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team takes Tufts 10-0 in Home Season Opener | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

Died. James Hamilton Lewis, 72, Democratic whip and longtime Senator from Illinois; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington, D. C. A starveling Seattle lawyer at 22, a courtly Congressman-at-large at 32, long noted in the Senate for his pink whiskers and noble verbosity, Jim Ham Lewis observed shortly before his death that nowadays age 60 was a man's political prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

After two years skull practice on what a modern newspaper should be, Publisher Ingersoll this week goes over to his new team to start scrimmage and whip it into shape for a public appearance "whenever it's ready-say in six months or a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Team | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Paddy's got it," the Irish and the Merseysiders exulted, and they were right. The Paddy horse breezed in three lengths ahead of MacMoffat without the whip, with Kilstar a trailing third among the eleven finishers. It was the first all-Irish winner since Troytown's year, 1920. Tim Hyde grinned a wide, toothless grin. Said he to Workman: "Twas a marvelous race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Over Aintree Meadow | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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