Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
...classroom I learn grammar, but such expressions as "nerts," "baloney," "horse feathers" and "son of the gun" were contributed by my American boy friends...
...Brockton. Mass., a gang of small boys elected Edward Smith, 9, and Robert Dobryzinski, 8, to play the cowboys in a game of "Cowboys and Indians." The Indians captured the cowboys, lashed them to a tree, heaped paper and dry grass around them and lit the execution fire. The cowboys watched the fire nervously while the Indians went dancing, shouting and screaming in a victory dance. Suddenly they heard a higher screaming, stopped. Robert Dobryzinski had wiggled free but Edward Smith's clothing was on fire. The boy died in the hospital...
...then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts...
...said the boy) I would give what I have...