Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crammed with British war boats. From England and from India brigades of infantry poured in. Squadron after squadron of British battle planes arrived via Greece to settle down on the well-sandbagged British air base back of Abukir Bay where Lord Nelson demolished a French fleet and "the boy stood on the burning deck...
...husband heard her frantic screams, lugged her and a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy, who suffered only a few slight bruises on his head, from the 40-ft. pit. Afraid to do anything else, he wrapped wife and child in blankets, drove both twelve miles to a hospital where Dr. John Franklin Foster, child specialist, put them in good condition...
Their director was Robert Lippert, a big, tense, jowly man who was once a boy soprano in the German Lutheran Church in Olean, N. Y. Robert Lippert well remembers when he was 13 and his father, the choirmaster, gave him a gold watch and said: "Son, you can't sing with us any longer." Though Son Lippert's voice changed, his interest in choral singing persisted. As he grew up, he organized choirs of his own, concentrated on the relationship of the voice to a boy's physical development. His conclusion was that voices do not necessarily...
...only human importantly concerned in the picture is a 14-year-old boy (V. Konstantinov) who falls asleep at a picnic where a companion has been reading aloud from Gulliver's Travels. Dreaming, he thinks he is Dr. Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital...
...pointed out that privately endowed institutions should break down "sectionalism, the bane of any country" by admitting students from all parts of the country. As a necessary corollary he reiterated his belief once again that colleges should award "a considerable number of scholarships with large stipends" to "the boy or girl with great ability but no money...