Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just a Boy...
...Just a boy at heart, Laemmle takes time off to watch the boats go by. "Just a short time ago I witnessed the unloading of a Japanese freighter in San Pedro Harbor," he writes. "The ship was discharging a vast cargo of meshed wiring which is manufactured in many sections of this country...
Many a tearful child has been told of the Spartan boy who hid a fox under his shirt, never even winced when the fox bit him and kept on biting him, finally fell dead, still with a dead pan. Last week readers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin wondered whether that Spartan boy was just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked...
...Dick makes his boys work hard, likes to give them responsibility. The school has an honor system and each boy takes a pledge not to smoke during term time. The plan provides for double class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...
Died. Robert Tait McKenzie, 70, long-time (1904-30) director of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and able, prolific sculptor of athletes, soldiers, Boy Scouts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. His most noted work was his Scottish-American War Memorial which now stands just off Edinburgh's Princes Street...