Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever it is that is being operated on. The next morning she will hand over to the surgeon for his hospital files accurately colored drawings of infected areas that could not easily be photographed, before and after...
Poreda, wobbling badly, was floored again just before the bell but had sense enough to box his way through the third round. In the fourth Schaaf's huge right fist, hard and heavy as a stone, dropped him again. By the time the fifth round was over, the Pole was clearly ready for a knockout. Ready to supply it, Schaaf rushed out of his corner in the sixth, battered Poreda's head with left hooks, then landed one more smashing right. This time Poreda stayed down for nine full seconds. When he lurched up, still stubborn enough...
...good graces of the Brothers Vaccaro. The Mosses ran a small insurance agency inherited from their father. Mike Moss persuaded the Vaccaros to invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling Brother Irving Moss as president. New Orleans, where race is viewed frankly, chuckled: "Watch what...
...went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years later, rose 20 ft., went 720 ft. in 21 sec. His machine added nothing to plane construction but his cheerful survival of many a crash encouraged European air daring...
...build an outdoor amphitheatre on the lake front for the 1933 World's Fair. More important, the old patrons were back-old Mrs. William Chalmers and Mrs. Joseph G. Coleman, the Ryersons. Swifts and Meekers. People missed the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick who always sat majestically in Box No. 5. but many of the other old boxholders were in their regular places, rhapsodizing over the acoustics which seemed better than ever to Chicago's ears after three years in the Insull House. In the Insull House the spirit of old-fashioned friendliness never got a foothold...