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Word: boffin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vicky | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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