Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger boy, dam-laborer, miner; after he became Prime Minister, other things shook New Zealand besides earthquakes...
...Japan's Imperial succession passes only to males, prolific Empress Nagako had the Japanese jittery for years as, four times in a row, she gave birth to girls. Five years ago she relieved their fears, gave birth to Crown Prince Akihito and two years later produced another boy-child...
...just finished Jerry," whispered Louis Greenfield hoarsely to the doorman of his Bronx apartment house one morning last week. "I gave my little boy chloroform. . . . He's better off dead...
...bought him blocks and tin soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked him every few weeks. At first Louis and Anna refused to believe the doctors' verdict that their Jerry would never grow beyond the mental age of two. Later they...
Many a youngster has grown up in the museum, become a learned member of its science club. Recently a little girl brought in a medal and asked whether it was made of gold. A 9-year-old boy determined its specific gravity, answered that...