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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having satisfied the President of his liberality, Alfred Murrah last week took his oath in Oklahoma City as the nation's youngest Federal Judge. He rode into Oklahoma City 18 years ago in a box car, was booted off by a brakeman, worked his way through high school and State University, set himself up in law practice. Aged 33, he promised solemnly to retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Youngest | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Delivered by a Western Union messenger in a large box, Sibi was but one more example of the CRIMSON giving the Lampoon the bird, and like the unusual goose it is, Sibi immediately began to honk and throw the funnymen into confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

...seems that the number of seats still available for the season of the Metropolitan Opera here in Boston has diminished to such an extent that there are only a few single tickets and a box or two left. Anyone who desires seats had better get in line immediately for this is the last call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

Though Flagstad is the Metropolitan's prime drawing card, its German wing- with Rethberg, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr, List-was the world's finest even before her arrival. When Edward Johnson became general manager, he knew better than to tamper with the wing that artistically and box-officially is his best. The Italian and French wings were in less happy state, and Johnson combed Europe last summer engaging fresh singers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flagstad's Week | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...once to be seen, for the State was bending its car to the plaint of a Citizen. On this morning a big Irish Policeman, the grey of the ulster set off by his apple-red face, was the State, and he leaned over the side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

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