Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain the Ministry of Supply announced that a 13-year-old schoolboy, one John Clough, had (while bedded with a chill in the infirmary) worked out a new type of air bomb which was a "first-class idea," had passed preliminary tests...
...spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...every British schoolboy has often been told, the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Last week Eton offered 15 acres of its famed Playing Field called Agar's Plough to the British Government for husbandry in the Grow-More-Food program. With respectful gratitude the Buckinghamshire Agricultural Committee touched its forelock and accepted...
...Nicolson said: "He liked their grim efficiency and liked the mechanization of the State and he was not at all deterred by the suppression of free thought and free discussion. . . . The slow, organic will power of Britain eluded his observation. . . . He is and always will be not merely a schoolboy hero but also a schoolboy...
Andover never seriously threatened after the initial touchdown, chiefly because of a charging Crimson line led by Russell Stannard, who was especially effective in smearing the schoolboy passers before they could...