Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fail in college for lack of a firm but friendly hand to offer guidance at the psychological moment. The test of fitness for college, say the university authorities, is the ability of the individual to take purposeful advantage to his opportunities. Correct reply the school heads, but follow each boy individually, especially at first, until he becomes oriented; or, in other words, until he knows what it's all about...
...driver from 1907 to 1921. Young Cummings was born within earshot of the Indianapolis Speedway, learned to distinguish Barney Oldfield's car by its sound, promised his mother that some day he would win the 500-mile race. He gathered speed slowly, first as a Western Union messenger boy, later as a taxidriver. When he was 16, he began driving in motorcycle races, graduated to automobiles two years later. He finished fifth in the 500-mile race of 1930, entered unsuccessfully for the next three years. Meanwhile he made a good living out of a shop called...
...scare off a general farm-labor strike. A trade treaty with the U. S. was in the making. But as Speaker Santiago Alba's eye swept the benches, he goggled. The benches were nearly deserted, Government and Opposition. "Where are they all?'' he asked. A page boy told him they had all gone to a bull fight in honor of the contestants in the "Miss Spain" beauty contest. The Speaker telephoned the bull ring to ask when the party would be over. Late that night the Deputies straggled into the Cortes, rapidly voted a 15% increase...
...flavor unblemished by oldtime Russian melancholy. Alexander Porfirievitch was a sane and optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed a talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years in a military hospital, struggled with chemistry until he became a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy...
...Tiberias, Palestine, a boy born during a cloudburst which killed 35 was christened Noah...