Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuels started on the mound for Princeton and lasted until the eventful third inning, when the Crimson batters blasted him out of the box with six consecutive hits. After Loughlin had rolled to the box, Adams was safe on a scratch infield single to Neel. Then in quick succession Ware followed with a Texas leaguer that dropped in short left and Thacher scorched a two-bagger which bounded in to the right-field stands. Adams crossed the plate but Ware was held on third by the two-base rule. With the infield playing close, Nevin cracked out a single...
...capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks were sold out.* On one point the entire populace seemed agreed: a bottle of 3.2% beer was about as stimulating as a box of chocolate cigars...
...been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail hit a few moments later, he said it sounded as if someone had "sat on a penny box of matches...
...Dinner at Eight"--Music Box, 45th Street W.--A brilliant cast enacting the complications surrounding a fashionable dinner party. Appeals with the same psychological machinery of "Grand Hotel." Conway Tearle's suiside is a masterpiece...
When performances are broadcast from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Engineer Charles Grey is monitor. National Broadcasting Co. uses four microphones at the Metropolitan, sometimes more. Engineer Grey, a rugged Down-Easterner from Portland, Me., sits in a second-tier box and sees that the music which comes from all four mikes is adjusted so evenly that it will sound over the radio just as it does in the great auditorium...