Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work will be dirty and exacting; the necessity of operating passenger trains on schedule will undoubtedly serve to make hours irregular. Those who find themselves in the service of the railroads on October 30 will discover that their duties will be a far different matter from realizing the boyhood ambition of being a railroad engineer...
...Thorpe is the illegitimate son of a woman of the streets. Chance brings him in the way of an officer of one of the railroads near New York, who adopts him and educates him. From early boyhood Thorpe has disliked women; fortune has thrown him into the hands of the lowest of them. The book is the story of Thorpe's mental and intellectual growth and the gradual weakening of his hate for all women...
...most notable literary biographies of recent years. This biography of one of America's foremost historians tells, largely in Fiske's own words, of his boyhood and youth, his early championship of the "cosmic philosophy," his intimate association with such leaders of thought as Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin and his services as an historian and man of letters. The biographer, a life-long friend and associate of Fiske, has written with unusual intimacy and understanding and by his extensive use of Fiske's own lively letters and journals, gives a peculiarly vivid picture, both of Fiske himself...
...General Wood was born in New Hampshire in 1860. When he was three months old his family moved to Massachusetts, where his boyhood was spent, principally on Cape Cod. As a youth he was thrown on his own resources, attended the Harvard Medical School, graduated therefrom in 1884, and afterwards served in the Boston City Hospital as house officer. One of his chiefs there has told me that General Wood was one of the most efficient surgical internes with whom he ever came in contact. Becoming restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling...