Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither coach has announced definitely the starting batteries for today. For Harvard, Devens will probably take the mound with Batchelder catching. The Elis will start either Jennison, Rudd, or Taylor in the box with Aldrich or Maine behind...
...Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood?an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material...
...royal box high up in the stand, the King leaned forward; the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester had their glasses up. The Queen in a long coat and beige hat looked bored. They had come ready for rain, but now, as the horses turned into the stretch the sun broke through and laid a yellow span on the midway-a span that moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared...
...steps. Even in the case of such devices, certain classes of farmers have nothing but scorn for new fangled ideas. When it comes to educational innovations the opposition spreads from the traditionally conservative class to those who are at least liberal enough to pay installments on an electric ice box. A particular example of the rough treatment handed out to educational pioneers is the public attitude towards the work of Alexander Meikle john, deposed president of Amherst College and present head of the Wisconsin Experimental College...