Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little can be done about this. So long as Harvard keeps its present examination system, the ability to whip off a coherent essay on almost any subject whatsoever will often count for more than knowledge of the material covered in a course...
...Saddle. In Amherst, Mass., 94 year-old Mrs. Lois Mitchell, horseback riding for the first time in 70 years, had a complaint: "I had to whip him to make him trot . . . Bicycling is more fun because I can put more vim into...
...nominating committee for the Class of '51 also met last night but failed to think up more than a dozen prospects. Another meeting will be held in an attempt to whip up a man-sized slate...
...varsity tennis team is favored to whip Boston University when its makes its 1949 home debut at 3:45 p.m. this afternoon on the Soldiers Field tennis courts...
...Court. On the evidence given in Dry Messiah alone, most readers will probably conclude that he was guilty as charged by church and state. But thousands of prohibitionists were ready to accept the denials of the man who had done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled...