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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five thousand Boy Scouts and 15,000 collegians in Madison, Wis., moaned when Colgate bustled to a three-minute touchdown, howled with joy when Gantenbein, Lubratovich and the Rabholz brothers put one over in the third period and another in the fourth. Wisconsin 13, Colgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...night the detectives watched, muffled in thick cloaks against the chill African night. At dawn a herd of goats ambled down the street, led by a young Spanish boy blowing on a cowhorn. The detectives craned their stiff necks. At each doorway where an empty milk can was standing the goatherd stopped, milked a complacent nanny to the requisite amount, then passed on. Meanwhile the other goats foraged busily. The surprised detectives saw numbers of them make for the alley where stood the French and Spanish cinema billboards, sniff the Spanish posters suspiciously, then turn to the French and pulling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Spanish Goats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...overhead and running expenses, and as $750 is being given to the Harvard Band for the Michigan trip, $2550 remains for distribution among benevolent institutions. It has already been decided to give $1,000 to the Red Cross and $500 to the Salvation Army, he bequests to the Cambridge Boy Scouts and the Committee on Friendly Relations among. Foreign Students awaiting the consultation of the Budget Committee with the newly-formed P. B. H. advisory group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ON BUDGET | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

...distributed his circulars, and now he knows; they object very much to having circulars distributed, and have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtain Call | 10/8/1929 | See Source »

Mountain Fury explains the malevolence which exists in the Alleghenies between the hill proletariat and the dale aristocracy. Naturally a dale-boy loves a hill-girl, to the accompaniment of baying hounds, tempests, a forest fire, murder, suicide, theft, and the bemused mumblings of a woodland lunatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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