Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report said, he fainted. He asked for a lock of his child's hair. Next afternoon he returned to make an official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight black smokestack cremation took place. The ashes were removed to Englewood where Mrs. Linbergh's widowed mother, Mrs. Dwight Whitney...
...full hour in which to talk and if he talks only 45 or 50 minutes B. B. C. is not in the least perturbed, merely turns on what British listeners call "The Ghost in Galoshes." This is a clock which ticks seconds, known officially as "The Interval Signal." The box in which it nestles with a microphone is known unofficially as "Studio...
...Prairie du Chien, Wis. on the railway station platform stands a great box. On its side is painted the address: "Prairie du Chien, Wis."-nothing else, no sender, no addressee. None of Prairie du Chien's 3,043 inhabitants has claimed it, all have come to look at it. The box contains an electric chair, designed for human executions...
...with a home run with bases loaded. The oldster's pitchers, while long upheld by sparkling work in the field, finally succumbed to a barrage of circuit clouts in the last few innings, which knocked F. A. Watson 3L, the former Redlands college hurler, far out of the box...
...this time Devens was putting on one of his usual exhibitions of bewildering curves. His amazingly fast delivery was steadier than ever, and most effective in the corner-cutting outshoots, which start from a good distance to the side of the pitcher's box and fade away over the left quarter of the home plate...