Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apartment, a sight greeted me that was not only repulsive but nauseating. Worker himself was in a semi-drunken stupor. His wife was lying on a dirty, sheetless bed. so drunk she could hardly raise her head. A mother cat with young kittens was in a box near...
...box was in a cleaner condition than the bed. ... In the kitchen it was very evident that John Barleycorn reigns supreme. . . . Fifteen or 20 bottles of beer and ale, one quart of whiskey (unopened) and a fifth of gin, partly consumed, adorned the buffet. The table was strewn with dirty beer and whiskey glasses...
...Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, famed ever since he presided at the Soviet trial of British Metropolitan-Vickers engineers (TIME, April 24, 1933). Somewhat less light of step and pantherlike than usual entered Chief Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky, longtime pouncer in broadcast Bolshevik trials. At the left of Judge Ulrich was the box of 16 prisoners around whom stood Red Army guards, changed every half hour...
...m.p.h. to overtake it. She was supposed to have paid Pianist Paderewski $3,000 to play for her and one guest at tea. When Mascagni conducted at the opening of an opera season, Mrs. Gardner did not let a broken leg keep her away. She sat in her box with the leg in a cast, her back to the stage...
Every installment of the Olympic games produces at least one historic race. With considerable justice, track experts called last week's 1,500-metre final the greatest ever run. The field lined up without Wooderson, who had been put out in a preliminary heat. Hitler reached his box just before the gun sounded for the start. While the murmur of the crowd gathered into a huge expectant roar, the field of twelve runners finished the first three laps with Ny leading, Cunningham second, Lovelock third. Then, still a good 300 metres from the finish, Lovelock began his amazing sprint...