Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unfortunate situation could be remedied and the overnight privilege considerably improved, if provision were made for the reception of books between midnight and nine o'clock. A delivery box secure at once against thievery and Cambridge rains, and equipped inside with a canvas slide so that the books would not be injured by the drop, could be built at a very reasonable cost. Surely this would provide a cheap and efficient means for the Library Council to increase the convenience of the Reading Room...
...Arlington Downs the Fergusons were the guests of the Waggoners and were invited to occupy their box, just as was Jim Farley. At a luncheon before the races, Mrs. Ferguson made a charming and appropriate little speech to the effect that everybody had come to see the races and not to hear speeches and what were they waiting...
...future Mayor of New York, or his signature dated tonight; the autographed bodice or "stepin" of one of New York's most popular actresses; the private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting; a lighted red lamp or lantern; the red carnation of Mr. Clifton Webb at the Music Box; the initialed handkerchief of New York's most charming and honest banker; three red hairs from a lady's head; a mauve comb; a live monkey; a shoe of Jimmy Durante; any unused foreign stamp; a bicycle...
...system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features of his system are a hop-shifting backfield; deft, sidewise blocking in the line; the box forma tion of the backfield; the seven-man line on defense. On offense, almost every line man has the job of blocking one assigned opposing lineman, leaving the entire backfield free to run interference for the ball carrier, "power ahead of the ball." On defense the man-for-man assignment...
...portentous superstition, we are informed, has grown up among the inhabitants of the press box at the football games. The inquiring reporters, alert to everything except the game, have noticed a pecullar circumstance connected with the band's rendition of "Wintergreen for President." Whenever it has been played this year, we are told, Harvard has failed to win the game. It seems a pity to sacrifice the beautiful strains of our traditional college song; but apparently it is that or the victory. The students have their choice...