Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lockwood comfortably sitting with legs crossed, hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now and then. The big Condor flew smoothly on, directly over a predetermined spot, taking its directions from a small box under the pilot's seat-the Sperry automatic pilot, a device not unlike the Sperry gyroscope which guides vessels...
...easily identified. It is a small, neat store in the window of which are some ginger ale or nonalcoholic liqueur bottles, or a pot of flowers. No longer is liquor on display inside; cautious vendors now keep it under a counter, behind a partition, or in an ice box out back. In some stores a prospective purchaser must bring an introduction or answer questions, but in most of them all comers are served with cheerful uniformity...
Last month the Press chuckled when Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone went to a charity baseball game in Chicago, sat in a front box, shook hands with the players, had his picture taken. For in another front box was sitting Chief Investigator Pat Roche, who had said he was looking for Gangster Capone for a fortnight but could not find him (TIME. Sept...
Practicality. When as a boy he hawked newspapers and fruit and played with chemicals on a Michigan train, he spilled some burning phosphorus. An irate conductor gave the amateur chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because...
...many were not yet ready to take her seriously. It is told how the conductor Antonio Guarnieri once met her on his way to the Maestro's office. Said she: "I am Signorina Colombo. What can I do for you?" Said Maestro Guarnieri curtly: "Run and get me a box of matches...