Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre operators, Hollywood's distributors, don't like war pictures these days, and neither "The True Glory" nor "The Way Ahead" is getting the attention it deserves. They're not good box-office, but they should be required movie-going for everyone who can get no closer to war than a seat in a theatre...
...passing one of the many monasteries which cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...
...month rent, the Electronic Trap Co. of Rochester, N. Y. offers a highly scientific rat eradicator. Taking advantage of the fact that rats fear blind alleys and new paths, the electronic rat trap is a floorless, open-ended box placed over a favorite rat run. The rat, seeing nothing suspicious, thinks he can scoot straight through. But the instant he is inside the trap - bang! An electronic eye slams down two doors, one in front and one behind...
Shorn of the Russians, the meet went on, with newsreel cameras grinding from what once was Hitler's private box. The best performance was a 6 ft. 4 3/10 in. high jump by Sergeant Pete Watkins, ex-Texas A & M, who also won the no-meter high hurdles in 15.3 sec. The score: U.S. 94, Britain 43, France...
...took him only two years to work out his method of extracting cosmic rays from outer space. In 1912 he built a cosmic aerial, a cosmic booster box and a small cosmic rectifier. Jubilantly he moved to Long Beach, Calif., to await recognition...