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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection-they were the most even-tempered, law-abiding team in the whole National Hockey League. This fall the Leafs have turned a brighter, more attractive color. Last week they could point with pride to league leadership in 1) games won, 2) time per game in the penalty box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Leafs: New Leafs | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Leafs: New Leafs | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...announced: "There are oneway tickets to the minors for any players who get shoved around and take it numbly." Last week none of his youngsters, most of them ex-servicemen, were playing for Lady Byng. Body-checking their way into the league lead, they had run up 108 penalty-box minutes in eleven games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Leafs: New Leafs | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...suddenly that he gets a decelerating force of about 30 'Gs.' [Every part of his body weighs 30 times as much as normal.] This is a bit too much." To live, said Whittle, "the pilot will have to be tossed out in some sort of streamlined box," so he won't slow down too quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jeticicm | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Kathleen Winsor's bawdy Restoration heroine finally got back to her old tramping grounds-and was promptly put to work selling papers. Last week, in a frontpage box, Lord Rothermere's London Sunday Dispatch announced that it would share with its 1,600,000 readers an authorized, serialized version of Forever Amber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bedtime Story | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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