Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Wisconsin's Edwin E. Witte, 70, onetime Wisconsin farm boy who became a leader of the institutional school of economics that concerns itself not with the "timeless, placeless laws of economics" but with practical solutions to everyday problems. Though round-faced Economist Witte regarded himself as "an old-fashioned teacher" who was never really happy away from the campus on which he had studied and taught so long, he helped draft many a progressive law for his state, wrote the Federal Social Security Act of 1934-35, campaigned constantly against colleagues who were so bent on appearing...
...more than a dozen tournaments, but only one major one (the French singles in 1956). In subsequent years she made most of the big-time tournaments, but never lived up to her promise. But last week she found the extra bit of confidence she needed. "Boy, I'm telling you I was nervous," she said later. "But I knew I could...
...robbed those wealthy squatters, Their flocks he did destroy, The terror of Australia Was the Wild Colonial Boy...
Hood in a Hood. The tales were the kind that no small boy was likely to forget. For two glorious years in the 1870s young Ned Kelly, with a ?2,000 price on his head, led a hard-riding gang, "bailed up" banks, "duffed" horses, stood off whole companies of police troopers. The gang, which included Ned's brother Dan, bulletproofed themselves in massive vests beaten out of plowshares and canlike helmets. Staging holdups on a grand scale, the gang was generous with its loot, reserved its gunfire primarily for the police, and acquired the aura of latter...
...Great Unwashed. Walter Paepcke's crusade to bring culture to the American businessman is a reflection of his own background and personality. As a boy, he spent as much time being tutored in the arts at home as he did in a Chicago private school. Starting out young in business, he put together the Container Corp. combine, pushed the idea of modern design into such areas as annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort...