Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manuscript, his first campaign speech, from which he was about to read. No hard-boiled political stumpster, he seemed shy and nervous before the 2,000 clerks, farmers, Negroes, laborers, socialites - Republican voters all - who packed the hall. A swift smile from Mrs. Morrow who sat in a box with Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn gave him encouragement. As the din of sirens and noise makers died, Mr. Morrow cleared his throat, plunged straightway into his speech in a strong clear voice : "I come before the Republican voters of New Jersey as a candidate for the office of United States...
...year old director, who has gained world fame for the intense vigor of his use of the newest medium of art, was entirely at ease with the reporters gathered from the metropolitan papers, who hurled questions at him concerning his likes and dislikes of various box office stars. Most of the questions he parried or answered in subtle ambigulties which left the scribes at a loss to understand. True to his idea of how a moving picture should be made, he stated that he would continue to use characters who had impressed him with their faces and not with their...
Manuscripts of the movie review of "The Case of Sergeant Grischa", for the $10 prizes given by the Harvard CRIMSON and the Radcliffe "Daily" must be handed in either at the CRIMSON building or the Radcliffe "Daily" box a Agassiz Hall by 12 o'clock, Monday...
Burrrrzipppp! The clerk touched an electric key, and, exactly like a U. S. movie ticket machine, the tote poked out a ticket for Suada, value of one guinea. Fingering this novel pasteboard, puffing his pale Havana, George V walked back to the Royal Box with Suada's owner, his son-in-law, the spidery-limbed Earl of Harewood, spouse of Princess Mary. In the fourth race Royalty's loping Suada was almost lost among the last of the also-rans, and lost with it was the King's guinea. A genial loser, George V discreetly made known that...
Visual radio signals are received in a box mounted on the plane's instrument board, containing two white-tipped metal strips called "reeds." The reeds, placed side by side, vibrate vertically in tune with the two modulation frequencies used by the sending station. The "longer" reed (i. e., the one which looks longer because it vibrates with greater intensity) indicates the side on which the plane is off its course...