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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shipbuilders' generosity rose and fell with the tide. One yard gave Cinemactress Greer Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Baubles | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

After the days of the proud, heavily-gilded, soft-cushion Athenaeum, the Howard sunk to playing cheap variety shows in 1868. Ever since the name Old Howard has been used. For years the blue-lighted anatomical soloes have brought the crowds past the box office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O-H, Inexplicable Lure And All, Is Cinch to Draw Throngs of '50 | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Sabers & Cold Iron | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...went all the usual cartoons, quips, verse, chichi shopping notes and critical departments. The entire issue, except for entertainment guides up front, was given over to a 30,000-word doomsday documentary on Hiroshima, by John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey. An editorial box explained that "everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of [the atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Laughter | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Last week Lafayette's miners did something that met with their longtime doctor's deep disapproval. They trooped into Bermont's hardware & grocery, and Alderson's clothing store and dropped dollar bills and 50? pieces into a box to give him a trip around the world and to sign a citation: "To a grand old man, with the best wishes of a grateful community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Company Doctor | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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