Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile jack, a mechanic's hammer, two beer can openers, a pen knife, a pocket comb, a silver tea strainer. The brief case was roped to his neck with tight sailor's bowline knots. In Mr. Keene's vest pocket: only a small tin box containing three .32-calibre cartridges and two aspirin tablets. In Mr. Keene's throat, a hole through which a .32-calibre bullet had passed. So far as anyone knew, Mr. Keene did not own a .32-calibre weapon, the brief case or automobile jack. But the mesh...
...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...
Last week in New York, Pitcher Hubbell walked out to the pitcher's box to try to extend his string to 25 against the Brooklyn Dodgers, as a preface to receiving a prize for being the most valuable National League player of 1936. When the game ended, Pitcher Hubbell needed the prize for consolation. Aided by able pitching from towering Van Lingle Mungo, one of Hubbell's few real rivals, Brooklyn had knocked him out of the box in the fourth inning, beaten the Giants...
Epsom. In grey felt topper and morning coat, King George VI soberly entered the Royal Box. Queen Elizabeth, appearing in powder blue, greeted Queen Mary with a kiss on both cheeks. Behind steeped the Dukes & Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, and a set of silk-toppered plainclothesmen. From far & near burst a crescendo of cheers from some 250,000 throats. Thus heralded was George VI's first arrival at Epsom Downs as King, to view the 157-year-old racing classic founded by the 12th Earl of Derby...
...opposing batters to four scratch hits for a single run in the first eight frames. Tiring in the ninth, the sopohomore right-hander gave way to Ed Ingalls, after allowing four base knocks and three tallies. Ingalls forced the Tufts batter to ground out to the pitcher's box retiring the side...