Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schoolboy Knew. In Egypt the literary approach is still the most useful. Egypt was conquered about 1800 B.C. by the Hyksos, a crude Asian people. Much of the information about this period was suspect because it came from a schoolboy's exercise tablet. Egyptologists debated whether the schoolboy's tale was a partial copy of a grownup text (like copying the Gettysburg Address) or whether it was a patriotic composition out of the boy's own head...
...schoolboy was vindicated in 1939, when part of the same story was found carved on stone at Karnak. The rest was not found, and its lack left the Egyptologists on dignified tenterhooks. Last summer the missing inscription was found on a stone built into a later structure. The scholars now know that the inscription is just what Egyptian schoolboys would be likely to copy. It tells how their Pharaoh Kamose defeated the uncouth Hyksos...
...story of Frank White is one that has impressed Noonan, who remembers treating him for a back injury sustained as a schoolboy. Doctors had predicted that it would prevent White from further contact sports, but his determination to play football and the expert care of Noonan more than upset predictions...
Artzybasheff, who was born in Kharkov (1899), the son of a well-to-do Russian author, began to doodle with grotesque and weird creatures as a schoolboy. He had. just entered law school-to round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
Trying to rally enthusiasm for the Suez settlement, Egypt's young Strongman Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser faced a quarter million of his people one night last week in Alexandria's Manshiya Square. On that very spot, he said dramatically, as a schoolboy in 1930 he took part in his first anti-British demonstration, first saw authorities shoot down fellow Egyptians. "But I am alive," he cried, "participating in the freeing of my country...