Word: box
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget box before addressing the Speaker and the House...
Proctor Avon is scheduled to start in the pitcher's box, but a substitution may be made before the game. Frank Owen, who played well against Dummer on Wednesday will start as usual at second base. Tom Bilodeau has swapped places with Louis Carr in the infield lineup and will start at first, while Carr will play at short. This shakeup was made during Wednesday's game and will probably be permanent...
...found qualified applicants but when they finally do appear, the Stadium will be treated to a hog-calling contest. Led by Mr. Getchell, the trio will troup down to Soldiers Field and howl till the colonnades ring. The winner, who succeeds in rattling the seats in the press-box, gets...
Traveling to South Byfield this afternoon, the Freshman baseball nine will meet the Governor Dummer Academy team. Dick Walsh will start in the pitchers box for the Crimson. After his excellent showing last Saturday in the game with Exeter, Walsh has apparently won himself a permanent position on the team. The Dummer squad has not shown up very well so far this season, having lost two games...
...International News had been gloriously hoaxed, and the U. S. Press with it. But in borrowing the Illustrirte Zeitung's feature, the International News editors missed two ingenious points: 1) The pilot did not simply blow the rotors around by sheer lung-power. He breathed normally into the box, in which a marvelous chemical contrivance converted the carbon dioxide of his breath into fuel to run a small motor which turned the rotors! (As everyone should know, carbon dioxide is anything but combustible.) 2) The pilot's name, Koycher (not Kocher), was a freak spelling of Kencher which...