Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eggs sold last week brought from $525 to $1,315 apiece. Like first folio Shakespeares, each had an individual history. One was found by the late great Alfred Newton in a box at the Royal College of Surgeons. Lady Cust got another for five francs in a French shop. A third belonged to Captain Cook, the explorer...
Patriotically done up in red, white, and blue ribbons, and embedded in a leather-covered, plush-lined box, the trophy was presented to the Harvard Baseball Team by the Waseda University Baseball team of Japan. Three bats support the bowl, while a ball is perched on each handle of the chalice...
...colonists in their practical manner had an excellent device for speeding along courtship and saving firework at the same time. The damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...
...Patrick's Brother Frank, with a new job as manager, planned to make a star of a Ranger castoff, hulking Jean Pusie. In St. Louis a new team called the Eagles, but actually the old Ottawa Senators who were as weak on ice as they were at the box office last season, was threatened by a suit for $200,000 for trespassing in a district already covered by a minor-league franchise...
...left hand, ripped away the husks with his right, snapped the ear from its stem. Bang-bang-bang went the hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker than a man could pick...