Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, the depression finds us sunk into a deeper hole than a while ago because of the psychological condition that is apparently the result of economic intimidation. The failure of disarmament conferences, the misbehavior of Japan, political unrest in the European 'powder-box,' and high tariff walls, all add to the uncertainty of our economic life. It is evident that fear has exaggerated the importance of these conditions, but they must be reckoned with, one at a time, before we shall be able to straighten the entanglements of international economics...
...four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building, had placed a lead box containing ceramic photographs of the present court and of Chief Justice Taft, a Congressional Directory, copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Attorney General's last annual report, a World Almanac, and the latest volume of Supreme Court opinions. As the stone clumped down to rest...
Convict Harry Schneider (one of the last to see Maillefert alive in the box) "I said 'Jersey, it looks like they got you in a pretty tight spot.' He made a motion like he was going to hang himself. . . . Almost every day he said he was 'just as well off dead as to stay there and work...
What spiteful Zeus put into Pandora's famed box caused scarcely more confusion among the Greeks than occurred in all King George's capitals last week when all the King's Premiers opened their dispatch boxes on the same day and let out all the secret schedules of the twelve bilateral tariff agreements signed among all His Majesty's governments with nine bright red pens at the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference (TIME...
Practically all the factors which are the motivation behind us whenever we lay down our money at the box-offices are present in "Cynara." There are bathing beauties, polished figures of good society, action, color, a variety of scenes, lines that you want to remember. The company of "Cynara" sets a high pace of action and sparkle. We hope they fill the house...