Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard box score: ab r h po a e Johns, 2b 5 3 3 2 2 0 Grondahl, ss 4 2 1 0 3 0 Gannett, cf 4 1 2 1 0 0 Lupien, 1b 4 2 2 11 0 0 Prouty, rf 5 1 3 1 0 0 Heckel, 3b 2 2 0 2 2 0 Cunningham, lf 3 1 1 2 0 0 Bacon, c 5 0 1 8 0 0 ab r h po a e Curtiss...
...formal convention of U. S. hoboes. There were hundreds of celebrities, like the Brazilian Ambassador, Post master General Farley, Marshall Field, Cinemactress Constance Bennett, who emerged from 250 private railroad cars and made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs. At the track Owner Widener shared his box with bright-eyed Sir Bede Clifford, Governor-General of the Bahamas, believing he had never before had so good a chance to win a Derby...
...March day last week's concert was first announced, every seat in Carnegie Hall was sold at topnotch prices within a few hours. Subsequent demands fairly exhausted the patience of the box-office staff. One person would argue that he had never heard a Toscanini performance, that this was therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East...
...body, is depressed, thereby closing an electric circuit. A double wire runs down the sword, up the performer's sleeve, down to his belt and along the strip to a reel, which gives the wire enough play for the fencer's movements, and thence to a control box. One-tenth of a second after a touch closes the circuit, a bell tinkles and a light flashes simultaneously on the judge's table, indicating which contestant has scored the point...
...many professionals would envy, as these examples will readily prove. Culled from the hundreds of photos received every week by the editors of COLLEGIATE DIGEST, they are just a few of the off the beaten path prints that are submitted for publication. Send your unusual prints to: COLLEGIATE DIGEST, Box 472, Madison...