Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Buster McTernen scorched a single through the pitcher's box, the stage was set for a double steal with McTernen on first and Bilodeau safe at third. The speedy Crimson center fielder started for second. Bill Ryan, the Holy Cross catcher, spotted the play and in attempting to keep Bilodeau at third tossed wild to the hot-corner, allowing the Varsity captain to score. A moment later McTernen brought in the tying tally, as the left fielder's throw home went far from the plate...
...stealing A. F. of L. members, for taking jewelry workers into a pants makers' union, watchmakers into a radio union. President Wharton of the Machinists described the C. I. O. as "Lewis, Hillman, Dubinsky, Howard and their gang of sluggers. Communists, radicals and soap-box artists, professional bums, expelled members of labor unions, outright scabs and the Jewish organizations with all their Red affiliates." President Mahon of the Street Car employes told how pickle workers had been taken into C. I. O.'s automobile workers' union and added, "even the Machinists never did that...
...First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
...composite Harvard box-score: AB R H PO A E McTernan, cf 13 2 2 10 1 1 Lupien, lb 15 2 6 26 4 0 Bilodeau, ss 13 3 3 6 15 1 Owen, 3b 11 3 3 4 6 1 Sullivan, lf 15 1 3 6 0 0 Colwell, c 13 1 2 19 3 2 Doyle, c 1 0 0 1 0 0 Gannett, rf 15 0 2 1 0 0 Grondahl, 2b 12 0 2 14 3 4 McIntosh, of 0 0 0 1 0 0 Walsh, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Shean...
...Danforth & Swann oscillion is a simple-looking oblong wooden box with an electrical circuit inside. Current flows through a resistance, is stored up in a condenser, spills into a neon tube, becomes a series of electrical "pulses." A loud speaker translates the pulses into sound...