Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play in the second half, the Crimson linemen realized with a sinking feeling in the pits of their stomachs, that Morey had changed his attack and now was working with an unbalanced line--more men on one side of the center than on the other side. From the press box one could see the desperation of the Harvard team, as it tried to shift with the Bates line. The tackles would pull out to meet the shift and the guards would remain stolidly in their accustomed positions. There was just the hole that Mr. Wellman & Co. were looking...
Have dress suit, only worn once; by dead man. Original pressing. Fit 6-ft., 100-pound man. Cost $135. Sell for $30 cash. Box...
...business, but whose social outlook embraces the problems of the common man a colorful figure a force in the public mind. He must be a man who can draw the contributions of the rich to the campaign chest, and the votes of the poor man to the ballot box...
...empty nursery on Sourland Mountain, psychiatrists had deduced that the man was German, or at least Teutonic. His English was largely phonetic and he used "gute" for "good." He also appeared to be some sort of mechanic; one ransom note had a careful working drawing of the sort of box in which he wanted the money delivered. The ladder by which he climbed to the Lindbergh nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely...
...Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In the last fortnight a handful of Jews in the German district of Yorkville had reported defacement of their store windows. And week ago the Jewish owners of a German cinema in the same section had found four dread swastikas scratched in their box-office windows...