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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain why I am mentioning George Rinehart's "Boy Meets Girl" first. It is not the best item in Signature, nor is it the worst. But for awhile it gave me a hard time. I started to read: "Behold! For this is that of Beowulf, of Ecgtheow the son. May his hair grow long in heaven...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets (as an errand boy for the butcher), he was usually absorbed in an adventure story-Rider Haggard or Baroness Orczy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Medicine Man | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...show was Marcks's Holy Spring, a naked, hopeful-looking boy modeled in memory of his son, who was killed at the front. The spirit that enabled him to make that one had stood him in good stead throughout the years of Nazi domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stimulation | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Scholarship. In Bristol, England, the children's officer of the city council pointed out that it costs more to send a boy to a state reformatory than to Eton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Triangle. In Brantford, Ont., Gordon Schwitzer, testifying at his wife's bigamy trial, explained to the court that he thought her first husband was "just another boy friend who didn't want me around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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