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Word: whoop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Penndorf, playing right wing for the physical education students, tapped in the single score from a mole in front of the Harvard goalmouth. Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder, who throughout the game made a series of spectacular saves, was blocked out of the scoring play by the scrambling Crimson defenders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springfield Champions Nip Soccer Team, 1-0 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...railroads, which usually talk to the public in conservative full-page ads and statistics, last week tried it with whoop-de-do and the can can. To mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million to make their Railroad Fair the biggest since the New York World's Fair. They packed 50 acres of Chicago's lake shore with sideshows, pageants, new coaches and exhibits, including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: IRON HORSEPLAY | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...always scrupulously correct when white folks were around. But when with his own people, he liked to whoop it up. Wherever he went, he was followed by cronies-who admired him and split up what money there was in his wallet if it was lying around handy. Joe didn't mind. He never quibbled about a few hundred dollars; he never ducked an opponent. He has defended his title 25 times (more than any champion before him) and scored 22 knockouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Joe's Last Fight | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...today, thin-faced Ted Atkinson, 31, is known as The Slasher because of the way he flails the whip. Arcaro's only other serious rival is the West Coast's favorite Johnny Longden, who is 38. They all have slightly different styles. Longden, for example, is famed as a "whoop-te-do" rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. Atkinson rides with his stirrups even; Arcaro uses what is called the "ace deuce" technique, in which the right stirrup is about two inches higher than the left. Says Arcaro: "I don't agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Oscar Awards (Sat. 10:30p.m., ABC). The annual whoop-de-do of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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