Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest box-office stars of the year, listed by Motion Picture Herald in its annual poll of 10,000 independent U. S. theatre owners, and representing for the first time stars of only two of Hollywood's major companies...
...Last week Charles Sachen, who does excavating work, decided to take matters in his own hands. He remembered hearing that vermifuge cures dogs of the "fits" and he saw no reason why it should not work on humans. He went down to the drugstore and for 33? bought a box of "Kickapoo Worm Lozenges...
...average of more than 6,000 people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase...
...magnificent $17,500,000 coliseum built to house the Department which was Herbert Hoover's monument and his stepping stone to the Presidency, Uncle Dan Roper of Marlboro County, S. C. seemed like a very small potato indeed in a very big box. His training for the job consisted of clerking in Congress, working in President Wilson's Post Office Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt...
...left a note saying he was going to a rendezvous with General Nicholas Skobline, one of his assistants. The note ended: "Peut-être c'est un guet-apens" (Perhaps it is an ambush). There are witnesses who later that day saw a big box carried on board the Soviet freighter which lay unloading hides at Le Havre. Without completing her unloading, without properly clearing port, the Mary a Ulyanova cast her hawsers and scuttled...