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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere of excitement and expectation swirled over the Stadium last Saturday as the crimson-jerseyed team prepared to clash with the sons of Annapolis. Harvard fans keyed to a high pitch of enthusiasm cheered wildly as the first tackle was made, while up in the press box, typewriters clicked busily. It was a contest between two closely matched teams and many hopes, reputations and even dollars rested on the uncertain outcome. But seated next to our correspondent was a blase young thing, sweetly dressed in red, wearing a fetching red hat, with a red feather protruding from the back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/18/1936 | See Source »

Refusing to become excited over Saturday's minor conflagration on Mt. Auburn Street where nobody seemed to know the exact location of the nearest alarm box, Lehman Hall officials said yesterday that they would probably stand pat on their present platform of fire prevention and student fire education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Alarm Boxes, Sprinklers, Janitors, and Telephones Protect University Against Blazes | 11/17/1936 | See Source »

...where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought of traveling. Last week two more neglected literary treasures made their appearance. Both were of modest historical significance, both made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forgotten Seamen | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Overhearing a policeman tell a woman spectator that he did not know where the fire box was. Giles rushed off in search while Meyers plungers into the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women, Children Rescued in Blaze | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Giles found a box on Massachusetts Avenue by Beck Hall and turned in an alarm. Meyers went to the second floor from which two children and two adults were escorted to safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women, Children Rescued in Blaze | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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