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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kaftan, an all-American center last season, still fluffs in a lot of rebounds. But the fair-haired boy now is all-American Bob Cousy, a junior...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Holy Cross Favored To Bounce Crimson | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...shows a dishevelled, drunken, and discouraged Negro MP sprawled on a pile of rubble wistfully playing his harmonica for an Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: Paisan | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

Insane minds have become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: The Snake Pit | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...boys of England's Eton, Headmaster Claude Aurelius Elliott was known as the Emperor. The son of a onetime lieutenant governor of Bengal, he seldom ventured too near his own little subjects; some boys went several years without ever meeting him at all. The Emperor was never ruffled when parents wondered why he paid no attention to their boy. "Unless he is a very outstanding figure in school life," he would tell them, "you can be glad I haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Emperor Abdicates | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...same sort of severity that has made Etonians tremble for five centuries. But he sometimes showed a compassion all his own. "That was a very understandable transgression," he would say to an offender, blinking sympathetically behind his spectacles. Then he would add: "One thousand lines," and send the boy to write out his punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Emperor Abdicates | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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