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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical criticism, had never tried his rabies vaccine on a human being before. But moved by the tears of Mme Meister, he finally took the boy to the Hotel-Dieu, had him injected with material from the spinal cord of a rabbit that had died from rabies. For three weeks Pasteur watched anxiously at the boy's bedside. To his overwhelming joy, the boy recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pasteur's Pride | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Sparked to its sixteenth victory in 18 starts by Elk Club boy Bud Finegan, the Freshman hoopsters swamped Dean Academy last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Academy Succumbs to Yardling Hoopsters, 45-13 | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

Overwhelmed by a landslide of reactionary votes, Paul M. Kerins '41, the boy crusader, was defeated yesterday after his vigorous campaign for election to the Brookline School Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKLINE VOTERS FROWN ON KERINS | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...expected jitterbug riots occurred on the opening day. Shaw's vocalist had to burrow to his microphone through the ecstatic exhibitionists swarming the stage. At the Paramount, a boy hurt himself jumping from a box. At the Shubert a girl swooned clean away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jitterbugs in Jersey | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Children's Crusade might be the subject for a fine work of imaginative realism. Our Lives Have Just Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moppets' Crusade | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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