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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William is one plucky boy," said Dr. William E. Wheatley. "He did a fair job of amputation, although, of course, he risked serious danger of infection from his knife. He'll pull through all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plucky Boy | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Yankees' outstanding pitcher, 26-year-old Atley Donald, is even more of a dark horse and even more of a twirlwind. Brought up from the minor-league Newark team last spring to learn the ways of the Big Time, the earnest Louisiana farm boy, who had gone uninvited to the Yankee training camp five years before to beg Manager Joe McCarthy for a tryout, was completely overshadowed by the famed Yankee pitching roster of Lefty Gomez, Red Ruffing, Monte Pearson and a half dozen others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For McKechnie and McCarthy | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Still the messages kept coming. One reported that 38 persons, one a woman, had gone down. This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades.) After several hours: "Don't speak English." Last message, toward 5 a. m.: "Will sink in two hours. Ten inches of water in my room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S O Stinks | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Richard King Mellon, 40, successor to his uncle, the late Andrew William Mellon, as head of the Mellon financial empire, has plenty of chicks but no child. Last week he and his 29-year-old wife, Constance Prosser McCaulley Mellon, adopted a two-months-old boy. To newshawks who begged for the largesse of a look at the child, Father Mellon gave short change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Resist, she chatters of the business of mating in the lower brackets with the kindly solicitude of a slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would do credit to a brothel-keeper. Sample Dix advice to the nubile: "A young girl who lets any one boy monopolize her simply shuts the door in the face of good times and her chances of making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note how a man reacts to the money proposition before she says 'Yes' to a marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do Wrong? | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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