Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian tradition for the winning team to drink champagne out of it and in the celebration of many victories the cup has not always been handled carefully. It is competed for, after the regular playing season ends, in a complicated series of play-off games, a series designed for box-office purposes rather than for scrupulous fairness in picking a winner. Thus the Boston Bruins, the Chicago Black Hawks, the New York Rangers-finishing in the order named in the American group of the National Hockey League-played a preliminary series against the three leading teams in the International group...
George Eastman, camera man, announced that he would give more than 500,000 gold-tinted box cameras away next month to any U. S. or Canadian child whose twelfth birthday comes in 1930. The occasion: to celebrate "Fiftieth Anniversary of Kodak...
Coach Fred Mitchell intends to try out three pitchers today keeping Charles Devens '32, B. H. Ticknor '31. and W. H. MacHale '31 in the box for three innings each. The selection of Ticknor comes as a surprise since he was slated as a candidate for the outfield where he played last year, although he had an excellent pitching background in prep school. Devens, who will start the game was the star twirler of the 1929 Freshman team while MacHale was a regular moundsman on the University team last season...
...room, a travelling crane was busily in action, its massive hook swinging in long even arcs as the operator, perched in a box-like contraption 40 feet above the floor, controlled the apparatus with a small hand switch...
...Angeles, Floyd Waite spent 391 hours buried six feet underground in a box connected with the surface by air pipes, a telephone. Said Floyd Waite on being disinterred: "I got the record...