Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Adman Bates had contracted to buy Jim Thomas' unwritten memoirs for $100,000 and had just given him a $76,000 house as part payment. For three days immediately after the Cabinet Ministers were told the contents of Neville Chamberlain's red leather Budget box, Alfred Bates and Jim Thomas played golf together. On the stand last week Jim Thomas' hearty voice became the humblest murmur...
...Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain, respectively glorifying the British Post Office and the social effect of water power...
...France for the late William Tiffany. Unfortunately Mrs. Dibble's desire to be the first U. S. woman to drive a coach-&-four in competition was discouraged at first by managers who welcomed the contraption to their horse shows but did not let her sit on the box...
Last week Mrs. Dibble was ready for the test. At 7 a. m. after breakfasting with her party at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she climbed to the Valiant's box, clad in an immaculate grey top hat, yellow stock, coaching coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her companions included Trainer Walsh. Ernest K. Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes...
...printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current. The reader places his hand on a wooden box so that it rests against a row of nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily through holes in the beads. The position of these rods corresponds to the letter which is being translated. Besides offering an unlimited choice of reading matter, Inventor Ranseen...