Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking of the ceremoniousness of the Japanese, Professor Kennelly said: "At one university a half-holiday was taken in order to make me a member of the Electrical Engineers of Japan, and I was presented with a large parchment scroll in a beautifully ornamented wooden box." The interviewer then had the pleasure of seeing the scroll and its box and several other articles which had been presented to Professor and Mrs. Kennelly on their departure. Among these were two bamboo slide-rules with 19 scales on each of them, made with the finest precision...
...failure of the Cambridge School of the Drama has brought at least one consolation. It has allowed the Harvard Dramatic Club to obtain the advantages of possessing a well-equipped theatre of its own without having to support it on box-office receipts. The Dramatic Club has always been hampered by lack of equipment and its choice of plays and frequency of production have been limited because of the necessity of financial return. Although the offer of the Rogers Building is only a temporary measure it may well lead to a permanent development on the part of the Dramatic Club...
...bird was bouncing swiftly from bat to bat in the Bucharest Badminton Club one day last week when sad news suddenly spread through the galleries: James Walker Brown had been ordered home. Former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and her friend the Princess of Hohenlohe heard it in the royal box...
...sports - practically everything that made headlines during the year. A new condensation of 1930 census figures fills 100 pages. The book goes to press in sections, beginning Sept. 21. The last section is held until Dec. 21 with a space left open for last-minute news, like the "fudge box" of an evening newspaper. For that reason the new Almanac even reports the overthrow of President Araujo of El Salvador, Dec. 3; the defeat of Prime Minister Scullin of Australia by Joseph A. Lyons, Dec. 19. Included also are late census figures for Canada. France and Palestine, football scores...
...piano box shanty under an oil derrick during an oil boom at Cherry Grove, Warren County...