Word: box
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...long stumped the experts. Many of them contend that the whole field should be called from the catcher's point of view. Just as many more insist that the batter's stance is an exception and can be rightly viewed only from the pitcher's box...
Another new feature of Mark III, and one of the outstanding advances in the development of automatic-controlled computing machines, is a specially designed "coding box." The purpose of this device is to speed up the process of translating mathematical symbols and operations into a "language" the machine...
...coding box" consists of a six by ton foot panel of over 200 keys, each with a number or mathematical symbol on it, Using the keyboard with its familiar symbols, a mathematician can record on a magnetic tape all the commands the machine needs to solve his problem. Essentially, he "copies" his equations on the keys of the coding machine. When fed into the machine, his commands are then transferred from the magnetic tape to the sequence drum which then controls the operations necessary to solve the problem...
...Model Agent John Robert Powers when he gave one of his models a hatbox he happened to have in his office (having just bought a new hat) so that she could carry sundry necessaries with her on her rounds. Usual contents of a model's hat box: make-up kit, extra dresses, shoes, stockings or slips...
That Midnight Kiss (M-G-M). Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...