Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Bird was offered an automobile ride to Chicago, he passed it up in favor of riding the rails. College friends last night said that Bird had made a hobby of traveling this way, and had covered large parts of the South in box cars...
Last week it was not April, but Britain was no longer at peace, when Sir John Simon rose to open a new, extraordinary budget. Before him was the worn red leather dispatch box that had been used by Gladstone. Three famed predecessors of Sir John's sat in the crowded Commons as he opened the box and began drawing out sheaves of paper. There was Neville Chamberlain, who used to have the amiable boomtime duty of announcing surpluses. There was Winston Churchill, who in the years 1924-29 would accompany his budget demands with thumping gestures. And, tiny...
...poverty, chastity and obedience, Little Sisters accept gifts but not incomes or endowments which would require managing property. Once they went through city streets in horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their big New York homes...
Every now & then some pseudo-scientific jack-in-the-box pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...Hollywood assembly line have come two pictures that are now serving their time at the University, "The Angels Wash Their Faces," and "Hotel For Women." The motion picture industry, wondering what has caused the stagnation in box office during the past few years, might well look into those two pictures and see the reason why. Each was carried out with technical skill, with good direction and good pacing, with reasonably capable casts. Yet they lacked one essential element--originality...