Word: schoolboy
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...third fourth" (the lowest division of the lowest form) for three times as long as any boy in the school. It took him three tries to nudge his way into Sandhurst. At 24, an Army lieutenant, he applied for Oxford, gave up when the examiner demanded a schoolboy's Greek irregular verbs from a British regular officer...
...surprised that in my later life I should have become so good in taking degrees because, when a schoolboy, I was so bad at passing examinations. In fact, one might almost say that no one ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees. From this a superficial thinker might argue that the way to get the most degrees is to fail in the most examinations." But there was a more "edifying conclusion" to be drawn...
Formerly a schoolboy star at Medford, Margarita comes to Harlow's staff from his coaching job at Wayland High School. His appointment brings the coaching staff up to its full strength, with Henry Lamar, Lyal Clark, Al McCoy, and Floyd Stahl rounding out the roster...
...house, hulking Sonny Tufts, Exeter-and-Yale-educated in real life, acts with unusual restraint. The inevitable local-professor's-pretty-daughter is talented, wide-eyed, blonde Newcomer Joan Caulfield. The plot complications are tried & true, but the medical-school atmosphere seems reasonably authentic-and the medical schoolboy humor is good-natured and not too grisly...
...from three centuries of Biblical scholarship and discovery of new texts which followed the King James version (1611), which was itself a revision of elder versions, not a new translation. But its English was awkward-its translators mauled the English language by following the Greek literally, like a dull schoolboy rendering Homer...