Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the halves no band will play for the first five minutes, and the field will be kept clear of practicing play- ers during that time. Meanwhile, the ushers, equipped with two collection boxes apiece, will each take up contributions in five rows to the right and left of their asile. The boxes have been altered so that bills may be inserted without folding, and each box carries the legend "For the Unemployed" and "Please Pass This Box Along." Spectators will be requested to remain seated for the first five minutes of the intermission...
...fast-moving Rock Island freight train near Martell, Neb., Hobo Sam Wilson walked in his sleep, walked through the door of a box car, landed on his feet...
...found in the film. Though on occasion the talkies have proven themselves quite equal to subtle and subjective treatments, a true transcription of Penrod would not have been profitable to make. The director, William Beaudine had his due from that greatest of all prompters, the box-office, to film a mere series of boy's pranks taking place in this present year of 1931. The results is comparable to a good "Our Gang" comedy, which though marred by as low beginning and a lame ending, reaches considerable heights in the middle...
...four-square stand taken in your last week's letter box on the CRIMSON's editorial "effusion" on the Army game prompts me to a word of explanation and correction. All four writers, three of whom approach the subject intelligently, are men less in touch with present day undergraduate thought, and especially that of the CRIMSON, than might be hoped for opponents of an undergraduate view...
...certain policemen were able to bank two hundred thousand dollars or how various judges became enormously wealthy on ten thousand dollars a year salaries. The public may never know why Mayor Walker and an obscure accountant, now in "voluntary exile" in Mexico, should have rented a safe deposit box together, or why in 1930 they found it necessary to change it for one four times as large. But anyone can draw the logical inferences from such evidence...