Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen thousand was the official total. That's a lot short of capacity (around 58,000) but just a scattered few thousands around those end zone oases would have made a lot of difference in the atmosphere. Even the press box looked deserted for this opener, the earliest in Harlow's Harvard history except for a tuneup with a pre-flight eleven...
...comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining box. Sample: "The Mirror . . . has become a collector's item. In time, the paper which you buy for 2? . . will be sold by dealers in rare issues for $5 and $10 a copy...
...most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped his ballot in the box...
...American Cigarette & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall). Hill Jr. has been with American only half as long. But he held the same title his father once had-vice president in charge of advertising. Schooled at St. Mark's and Yale, he served an apprentice, ship in the paper-box industry, was an Army colonel in World War II. As yet he has had little chance to show whether he has inherited his father's Midas thumb...
...last weeks of summer, determined movie customers stood in line, the trade press reported, and through Labor Day "box offices bulged . . with the biggest load of coin many had ever taken over a weekend. . . "What they stood in line to see, according to Variety...