Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt shot it back with the comment: "That is mighty sweet of you, and if I were a Frenchman I would kiss you on both cheeks. As an American, all I can say is 'you are a very good boy...
Bernard, a 22-year old Senior, was an all-scholastic goalie for Baltimore's Boy's Latin and played for Johns Hopkins before coming to Harvard. He is one of three New England collegians who will play in the North-South game...
...Bohola Boy. There is no such thing as a typical New Yorker; there is no single first citizen. New York has little community sense; its drive, its pride, its success spring from small groups, working toward individual ends, making full use of the city's opportunities. In a purely political sense it has a first citizen-its mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William...
...best and saw the city. He ate at Healy's famed restaurant on 66th Street, and watched "how the dainty people acted there." He saw every show in town. He worked hard to lose his brogue-he was determined not to go on being a gawky country boy...
...schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn-founded Outward Bound Sea School in Wales, 100 different boys come each month from schools, farms and factories throughout Britain, get to know something about "the sea, each other and themselves." At reviving Salem, 340 demoralized young Germans are learning democracy, fitness and "active Christianity" -though...