Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referendum includes two questions: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" and "For whom did you vote in 1932?" The person receiving a ballot makes two crosses, writes the name of his State, and drops the card in the mail box. Yet this simple operation may have results of profound significance. The New Deal is to be put to the acid test...
...Amsterdam, one in Berlin. In 1926 Naturalist Douglas Burden brought two to Bronx Zoo, but they pined away in 40 days. Last week's arrivals were escorted by two young Harvardmen, Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold and William Harvest Harkness, who captured 43 lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness on the way to the U. S. Another, ailing, was restored by a stiff dose of castor...
...Holy Cross out in Worcester this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This will be the first half of a two-game series, the return engagement being at Soldiers Field on June 2. Captain Eddie Loughlin has been elected to do the honors for the Crimson in the pitcher's box, while Bill Sline will perform for the Crusaders...
...season's gala opening in Covent Garden last week, England's No. 1 conductor was in no mood for suave epigrams. The opera was Fidelia, a heavy choice for Londoners less interested in Beethoven than in the King and Queen of Siam who sat in the royal box. The overture started but conversation buzzed on. Suddenly, without turning from the players. Sir Thomas barked: "Stop talking...
...biggest rooms in the world one night last week batteries of searchlights played down on a canvas-covered ring where a big clumsy German named Walter Neusel wildly flailed his way to victory over cautious, thick-middled, aging Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia. Back from the ring, in a raised box among the shadows, an event of more importance was taking place. After a fourth change in management in five years the world's greatest sports plant was welcoming a new boss. Two days before, by acquiring with his associates 78,000 shares of Madison Square Garden Corp. stock valued...