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Word: bosh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein Improving | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Sickly, Tedious Bosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...plans for approval by the trustees, Dartmouth having dropped chapel compulsion completely,* all within the fortnight, the students of Amherst College cried out upon the religious duties exacted from them. Said The Amherst Student: "Is not Amherst out of step with the modern liberal trend? Certainly the sickly tedious bosh which too often passes here for formal Religion can have no attraction to a virile mind. Unless religion can stand erect and challenging without the prop of attendance statistics, it deserves to topple into obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...Bosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A 20th Amendment? | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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