Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported the Tribunal: "We have seen Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], Sir Warren Fisher [head of the Civil Service] and Sir Maurice Gwyer [Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury] in the witness box. We unhesitatingly accept their evidence as regards themselves, their subordinates, and those engaged in the civil service generally, including the printers who are employed on this and other work of confidential nature...
...Harvard box score...
Among musicians and songwriters he was "dear old Victor," always good for a touch. Among critics there was a general regret that he seldom had librettos halfway worthy of his scores. Toward the end of his life jazz dimmed his box-office power, but he went on spending freely, passing out $10 bills as he walked down the street. Death came to him on May 27, 1924. He lunched at his club that day, boasted that he could eat nails. Two hours later he was dead in his doctor's office...
...race than ever before, was the gloomiest since the War. The huge crowd-perching on the tops of automobiles or busses, milling about fortune tellers' tents in the central enclosure, raising a great grey haze of dust above the Downs-was less rowdy than usual. The glass-enclosed box, where the Aga Khan last year received congratulations from his King, was banked with flowers and conspicuously empty...
...White Box 13Red Sox 5 Yankees 5 Indians 4 Tigers 10 Senators 8 Browns 9 Athletics 5 Bees 8 Reds 3 Piraies 6 Phillies 2 Cubs 4 Dodgers 3 Cards 6 Giants...