Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voting will take place all day on Wednesday and will be participated in by both students and members of the Faculty. Ballot boxes will be placed in all House Dining Halls, in the Union, and in Sever and Harvard Halls. In order to make it possible for all of the commuters to vote, a ballot box will be placed in Phillips Brooks House...
...support it with an unbreakable resolution to hold force in check whenever it is not in the service of right." Reporters who have seen many state funerals in Paris in the past five years, noted one novelty: three figures in long white sheepskin coats carrying a wooden box. They were Rumanian peasants, come to scatter Rumanian earth in the tomb of Louis Barthou, honorary citizen of Rumania since last summer (TIME, July 9). Hardly had the crowds streaked off to their homes than the Doumergue Cabinet took up the ugly aftermath of the assassinations. Obvious problem was to find...
...Euston-to-Blackpool express rocketed north through the night of the British midlands just west of Manchester, past the signal box at tiny Winwick Junction and smack into a puttering local. When the tumult had died and the ten dead had been laid out in the morgue, British Justice last week went ponderously to work on the facts. To an inquest at Warrington was summoned William Bloor...
Will Rogers occupied a box with Henry Ford. Cinemactor George Raft sat with Radio's Father Coughlin. Bradenton, Fla. changed its name to Deanville. Two men died of heart failure. Children in Detroit were happy: a radio was installed in every schoolhouse auditorium to enable them to hear about it. A newborn baby was named Marvin Dean Gonda. The members of the Byrd Expedition at Little America learned that Funnyman Joe E. Brown was in Detroit. To the U. S. public, the meaning of this series of irrelevant events was completely clear. Two baseball teams were playing each other last...
...Juan, Puerto Rico, a Judge declared a recess so that court attendants could watch a Scoreboard from the balcony. In Detroit, Mrs. Babe Ruth wore a corsage of orchids sent to her by one of her husband's teammates while her husband sat in the press-box in front of the reporter who was ghostwriting his story...