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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swedish and Norwegian glass and metal work fill another case, the exhibition illustrating what effect can be produced by proportion alone, without decoration. All colored objects, such as pottery and porcelain, are exhibited separately, and include candlesticks, plates, and a cigarette box decorated with enamel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW PIECES INSTALLED AT GERMANIC MUSEUM | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

...were actually gambling. He said they were busy packing 30,000 baseballs & bats, 5,000 skipping ropes and some May poles for the club's outing. His $360,660 bank deposits, he said, were made from "money I had saved." Most of it was kept in a tin box in a big safe in his home. The Sheriff insisted the box never contained more than $90,000, which was deposited and withdrawn over & over. Inquisitor Seabury called that a "revolving process"; Sheriff Farley called it "put it in & take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Charge-Judge Wilkerson hitched his chair toward the jury box and leveled his bushy brows at the jurymen, to deliver his charge. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone & Caponies | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Every two hours her steward appeared, staggering under a huge box of flowers addressed thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Salesman & Suite | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...cool and windy Stadium, but in the doorway of some radio shop listening to the strident voices of announcern of the West Point game. There is no doubt that the voices in their natural state caused silvery echoes to gift through the confines of the announcerial box. Amplified, refrequenced, hoarsed, and allowed to join the Freshmen in making the Yard noisy, the effect in a quite different one. But at any rate hungry Harvard football appetite was in a large degree left unsatisfied by its radio diet of last week, and with a coming Harvard eleven to watch in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

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