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Boy Scouts

noun

An international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys.

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"Boy scouts" Quotes from Famous Books

... Harry are not over-clean in person, nor nice in speech, so they are not wanted. Boy Scouts and Boys' Brigades are preached at, but Tom, Dick and Harry do not want to be preached at by a parson, or coddled ...

— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes

... realistic, entertaining stories for boys by writers who have a thorough knowledge of Boy Scouts and of real scouting in the sections of the country in which the scenes of ...

— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin

... kept waiting for our mail, and, if the postmen are not bringing us our letters, we very soon contrive some means of getting them. I grant it isn't a very enviable job to be standing outside a delivery window awaiting the sorting of letters by a crew of girl guides and boy scouts, who are not any too serious about their work. But once the letters are secured and delivered at the neighboring homes of friends and others, it is something done, besides the satisfaction of being able to sit down and read your own letters ...

— Lighted to Lighten: The Hope of India • Alice B. Van Doren

... of Boy Scouts one day clear up the field in Central Park in which they had been drilling," said Tom Watkins. "They stretched in a long line across the whole field and then they walked slowly along looking for anything that might have been dropped in the course of ...

— Ethel Morton at Rose House • Mabell S. C. Smith

... inspiration for historical research from the time he was old enough to read. His father's library had supplied him with all the facilities necessary to the carrying out of his inclination, and his travels with the Boy Scouts had brought him into contact with many of the countries whole history ...

— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson

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