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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Football Returns to Pre-War Style But Crowd Falls Short of Capacity | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Rations | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Soldier of Jesus | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: End of a Legend | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Preference | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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