Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strong, the 1934 pitcher, had a bad day in the box, allowing the Blue batters to sock out three two-base hits, as well as four singles, while four passes were issued, and but four men fanned. In the field the Freshmen made four errors, while throughout the game the team fielded slowly and erratically, while the Andover nine played consistently good baseball...
...train entered the outskirts of Vera Cruz, I saw two Mexican secret service men across the aisle watching my bunk. . . . I headed for the rear in my underwear as though I was going to wash. Then I slipped from the train and dressed under a box car. When I reached the American consulate I left my maps and went out to cable Mrs. Butler I was safe. . . . I learned later that they had spent two weeks dragging the bay as they felt sure I had fallen overboard. But I was restored to the Navy list and that ended that little...
...Japan potent President Kagami has a system of working from wooden boxes. One box for all papers about this, another box for all papers about that. Last week Mr. Kagami dipped into his wooden box on Silver and addressed the Congress thus...
...world had a chance against him. His drives, with the terrific leverage of the long, springlike body behind them, were hitting the lines for aces; his cut strokes were forcing errors; he was coming up to the net and volleying whenever he felt like it. In her mezzanine box, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson grew tired of clapping, but Promoter Jack Curley was not tired. Round and round the arena he tramped, carrying a cane, wearing white pants, a blue coat and the only straw hat in the house, his round face beaming on all the fine people who had come...
...Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps until, on the eighth day, Quaranta collapsed, out of his head with fever and suffering...