Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephone users were urged to "Save your time, your money, your memory and your nerves." How? By renting a clever little gadget for automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
Though not exactly ideal fare of the long-suffering exam-taker, "Dark Victory" is, nonetheless, a picture which deserves consideration and respect. In fact, anytime a producer goes against the laws of "sure-fire box office" and puts out a tragedy that relies on dramatic effect rather than gag lines for entertainment, that producer has a lot of respect due to come his way, but he's also courting box office defeat. Fortunately, by the grace of the gods and the acting of Bette Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching...
Since Blue Hill's original "cigar-box" radiosonde recorder was invented by Karl O. Lange in 1936, dozens of ascents have been made in the stratosphere, as high as 79,000 feet. The "cigar-box" is drawn up into the heights by a large hydrogen balloon...
...Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris, Pan American Airways (of which Lindbergh is technical adviser) inaugurated the first transatlantic mail service. In the hold of the Clipper were 112,574 pieces (1,603 Ibs.) of mail, mostly from collectors (rate: 30? a half ounce), and a box of four dozen California marigolds for Queen Mary. Alert at her crew stations, or lolling in the luxurious cabins were 16 Pan Am employes...
...Hartford, Conn., the House of Representatives took a vote on confirming seven nominations. When the ballot box was opened, among the ballots were found one penny, one stewed prune...