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Word: farmboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Odell has the stature of a Wotan, the jowl of a bloodhound and a temper to match. An Iowa farmboy, he went to San Francisco in 1923, later set up as a mortgage broker in Santa Barbara. In 1927 he and some friends decided to acquire small, little-known Pacific States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Rescue Operation | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Grant, Neb., on May 15, the life of Shirley Temple will be endangered." When Cinemactress Temple's father read this note in her fan mail three months ago, he notified G-men. Last week, by tracing the sale of the stationery in Grant, they arrested 16-year-old Farmboy Sterling Walrod Powell, voracious reader of cinemagazines, released him on $1,000 bail after he confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Hero of a ballad, Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by John Townsend Trowbridge (1878-1916). Farmboy Green, 14, eager to fly, built homemade wings, jumped from a rooftop, landed unhappily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wing Man | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...Western Conference shot put record (49 ft. 5½ in.) made by Minnesota's Clarence Munn. Two Negroes named Brooks won titles in the field. Michigan's Negro Brooker Brooks threw a discus 148 ft. 1¼ in., beating Illinois' giant Frank Purma, Kansas farmboy who has done 154 ft. 1½ in. Chicago's Negro John Brooks, a 142-lb. student of political science, crowded the Conference record broad jump, made by another Negro Dehart Hubbard, with a predicted jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Runners in the Wind | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...starter was the Lockheed monoplane Fort Worth, a white ship like the world-circling Winnie Mae but with a Wright motor of only 220 h. p. The pilots: Reginald L. Robbins, a Texas farmboy who taught himself to fly several years ago and in 1929 took the endurance record away from the Army's Question Mark (TIME, June 3, 1929); and Harry S. Jones, bachelor sportsman and promoter who had handled the refuelling plane for that endurance flight. Practiced in the tricks of refuelling in midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Unwieldly Suckling | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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