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Word: bosh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Hole of Calcutta cost $30,000, time, 15 seconds, and I accept that as true. My dear husband says I am too credulous to take in such "bosh." Who is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Loudly ejaculates, "Oh, bosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: GREAT BRITAIN Pacifists Pimched | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...enclosing a clipping, first of a series of twelve appearing in the Evening Bulletin written by Paavo Nurmi himself. He states: "The sensational news about my heart having been enlarged three times its normal size is pure bosh." I am enclosing the clipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...total of knowledge is not great. It is known that no clouds or rain occur in the belt. There is a notion that the prevailing wind is easterly, counter to the earth's movement; but Professor Piccard last week snorted: "That's a lot of bosh." Also it was supposed that the stratosphere visitor in daytime would see stars shine in a purple sky. Piccard's sky was deep, dark blue but starless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Two Men in a Ball | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Author Wright, anticipating biased criticism from jealous critics, says: "They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Seller | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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