Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bowing to a superior Law School team 6-0, Winthrop House played its first game in the inter-House box lacrosse league, yesterday afternoon in the Briggs Cage. J. Taylor Woodward, the Princeton star of 1932, and Luther H. Gulick '31, a coach at M.I.T. shared the honors in the scoring. Harms, of Dartmouth, with Thomas B. Finney '31, and John P. Faude '31, his running mates, made up the remainder of the Law School team...
That the new "set-back" skyscraper, by doing away with the old "Packing box" style of architecture has done much to better the living conditions in the large cities, was the theme of a lecture given to the Harvard School of City Planning by Ex-Congressman Edward M. Bassett of New York yesterday morning...
...Height regulations in zoning ordinances," Mr. Bassett said, "have brought to American cities greatly improved forms for office buildings, hotels, and other tall structures. Before the days of zoning the tendency was toward the packing box type which produced the greatest number of cubic feet and left the minimum of light and air space for the benefit of neighbors. The first tall building had plenty of light and air, but the fourth and fifth tall buildings surrounding the first brought darkness and unrentability...
...come and join us?" A young painter with a Van Dyke beard and some young women in slippers answered their call. So did others less adorned. Cheerfully the witnesses ranged themselves around. Susie slipped off her kimono but kept hold of her bouquet. Preacher Irvine mounted a box. Bride & groom exchanged their vows in the sight of Nature and a camera...
...WANTED, Young man between twenty-four and thirtyfour, expert scavenger, for a party. Must be tall, personable, poised, and above all quick witted. Locality, Boston. Box 362." "YOUNG LADY, 28, who, stationed in a lonely mission station in the jungles of India, has not seen a white man to talk with in a year, would welcome correspondence with a man of 30 or over, interested in books, music, folks and real living, who is as lonely as she is, 'Teddy.' " "YOUNG man, 22, isolated from all congenial companions, desires correspondence with young man interested in literature and music...