Word: booed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds under the record made by Ray two years ago. Ray started in the race. At the end of the third lap, pressing his hand to his side in the fashion of one stricken with a cramp, he dropped out. "Boo," went the gallery. But the gallant Ray, having many times given proof of his courage, trotted heedless to the locker rooms...
...opening proceedings were entirely uncharacteristic of Italian Parliaments. Whatever the Fascisti said, only the Fascisti could applaud or boo. And, more strange, there was a total absence of that usually irresistible temptation for the Opposition spokesman to speak at the same time the Government spokesman. At least in this respect, the boycotted Parliament was superior to its predecessors...
...doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more than to cry, "Boo!" and the Englishman of leisure is still able to sleep sweetly on a full stomach and say to himself, "Oh England, 'my merry England, my most kindly nurse...
...observation" as logicians call it. Harvard has had a similar experience along a different line. A certain class of outsiders read in the papers of millionaires' sons here in the University. That settles it! Harvard is a rich man's college; they must go to the football games and "boo" the team...
...return of examination books written for the April "hours" brings into renewed prominence that eternal bug-a-boo of the college student,--the ambiguous examination question. Confronted by the testimony of successful and flunking students alike, an impartial observer must conclude that ability to "guess what the instructor is after" plays all too great a part in the determination of one's mark. Instructors are led through long familiarity with their courses to refer to subjects in terms which even the most faithful student may not fully understand. Some even intentionally make questions indefinite with the avowed purpose of giving...