Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into the 364- year-old crypt below. While brown-faced Boy Scouts scurried after the injured, helped the unharmed scramble from the pit and calmed the other worshipers in the hot Cathedral, Archbishop Martínez quickly descended from his pulpit, bestowed blessings on the ten worst hurt. The installation then continued as planned...
Nebraska-born President-elect Jeffers went to work for the U. P. in 1890 as an office boy at 14, successively rose to be train dispatcher, chief dispatcher, superintendent, general superintendent, operating vice president, executive vice president. Last week he declared: "I would rather be president of the U. P. than President...
...Polish Jew who arrived in the U. S. as a boy, Barnet Hodes has made the corporation counsel's office the city's law office in fact as well as in name. Since 1933 six separate law offices representing the city have been combined, sorely needed records kept where records never existed before. Says the Illinois Bar Journal of busy Mr. Hodes' activities: "Probably nothing more dramatic in the field of public law has taken place in recent years than this 'renovation.' " Says Barnet Hodes: "Sure, I'm a politician. I'm here...
Martin, the sensitive over-thoughtful boy whose early life makes the substance of the novel, lost his parents and friends at a time in his life, and in the life of everyone in Germany, when he needed them most. He was thrown into the world on his own to do with his life what he could without the guidance of others who might have saved him from the mental agonies which he was forced to suffer. His experience as an apprentice to two manufacturers, his final attempt to escape from everything when he himself was his own worst enemy...
...only were they having fun with the boots and their new waterproof hats, but they had a hose! If you've never seen a C. W. W. boy with a hose you've got a treat coming for they really know...