Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the crowded visitors' gallery of the oak-paneled King's Bench courtroom, eager London School of Economics students last week gazed down on the witness box, where their mentor Harold Laski, with a shield of agile dialectics, nonchalantly deflected the barbs of an irate defense counsel...
...says Mrs. Vining, "You have to shout against the noise from the other classes and the people passing in the corridors. There is no electric light [and no heat]. . . . The floors, of rough wood, are grimy with dust from soldiers' feet over the years. The classrooms are like box stalls...
Presiding and performing at this one-course feast is 50-year-old Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, a small, lean Russian. Like another great Chopinist, Ignace Paderewski, Brailowsky studied in Vienna under Leschetizky, but it was not until he was already a box-office favorite in Paris that he got the idea of giving all of the master's works...
Students should apply at once, Captain Bonney emphasized, as applications must be in the hands of the Naval Section, College Entrance Examination Board, Box 709, Princeton, New Jersey, by Tuesday, December 17. Detailed information and application balks may be obtained from the professor of Naval Science, 28 Divinity Place, or from Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, in 17 University Hall...
...hear future, when they receive postcards addressed to them 23 years ago. Two residents of Grays Hall found the cards yesterday, stuck in the wall behind a studding. The missives, one announcing an invitation meeting of the Signet Society, had seemingly fallen through a crack in the mail box, when originally deposited there on March 2 and October 3, 1923. Benevolent undergraduates will forward the cards to the rightful owners...