Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted a survivor, "floating through the air, half of his head shot off, and land on the deck. It was awful...
...delighted when he made Group 2 at finals. And that was all very well. His father in New York said he would give him a new LaSalle so he could have just a great time all summer. The boy said he thought he would come back to summer school. It was in his blood, he said. He was crazy for study...
Junior year he won the Garrison prize for poetry and the Hackenroder medal for the best historical essay. He never went home for vacations any more. His father was afraid of him. He sent him checks for large sums intermittently. The boy never asked for money. He had little use for it. There were always three or four of his father's checks lying around un cashed in his room...
...beginning of his senior year the boy had already taken a deskful of notes on 37 books, 9 doctoral theses, and 12 pamphlets issued by the Modern Language Association. He had done this toward his Honors Thesis and he had written two rough drafts of it already. He spent most of his time in the stacks brushing up till he mastered his subject completely. Aside from that he took four courses and managed to get A's in all of them. His professors all knew him and marvelled at him. Some of them were a little afraid...
...boy is bald now and he wears thick triple-lens glasses beneath which his eyes water in the sun. He is still at Harvard. He is the head section-man in Iranian Philosophy...