Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen Manager Longone interpolated a floor show by the popular dance team, Veloz & Yolanda. His innovation had its box-office effect but purists shuddered at his taste, as they did again when he permitted a Buick sedan to be exhibited in the opera house foyer. When Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned (TIME, Dec. 2), more than Longone's taste was questioned. Longone claimed that Papi was either unable or unwilling...
According ot the Alumni Bulletin, President Conant should seal up in a box a copy of the Teachers Oath Bill, a typical Harvard graduate, and a little gin in a bottle--they say Djinn, but we know what they mean--, and mark it, "not to be opened until...
...Bulletin throws off the garment of gloom for the moment and indulges in a little humor over the future opening of a similar box by President Conant on September 8, 1936, which was sealed by President Josiah Quincy...
...CRIMSON. The difficulty lay in making a clock cheap enough to be lost after every ascension and in finding an efficient propellor. This instrument carries, however, simply a screw thread whose grooves are filled with an insulating material. On this bears a contact attached to an evacuated box such as is used in an ordinary aneroid barometer. Every time the contact crosses a thread, a corresponding interruption occurs in the radio signal. This signal was received on a rotating drum. The distance between the interruptions and the number of them tells the speed of ascent and the height...
Never in the history of Wigglesworth, according to the janitor, have rotting corpses been found in the mail boxes. For the third time this week, the decayed remnants of crows, geese, and other fowl have been left in a mail box in J-entry...