Word: box
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...horse doesn't win this race," said white-haired Clifford Mooers with a grin, "my face will be as long as that post. I'm not a very good loser." Then Cliff Mooers climbed to his box in the stone grandstand at Keeneland track. The odds board showed that his horse, a long-barreled chestnut named Old Rockport, was 4-5 to win the $20,000 Blue Grass Stakes, his last big test race before the Kentucky Derby...
...from under--at Harvard, say--is truly alarming. Lost, she turns up at the local women's club, gardening, or ladies' aid, and thinks of what her children were like a few years ago. And then, on the second Sunday of May, comes Her Day, and with it a box of chocolate brandy delights. Ah, mother love...
Root's prize was one of many given for the "best" solutions to the problem of where a stolen one-million dollars was hidden in the cartoon mystery. Root said that he believed the money was in a safety deposit box in Kernsey Jones' Bank, and that Jones carried the key around his neck. Jones in the story was president of the bank which lost the money...
Another tradition, although less spectacular, has also fallen out of use. The Ivy Oration, beginning in 1865, was performed over a box full of class mementos which was buried solemnly against the west wall of old Gore Hall (where Widener now stands): Ivy was ceremoniously planted over the box, but when all the plants died in 1876, this custom came to an end. The Ivy Orator, of course, has survived, but the Oration that began as a sober dedication later changed to a humorous speech. Two of the more famous Orators have been George Lyman Kittredge '82 and Robert Benchley...
Student entertainment seekers will' have their last chance today to order tickets for Boston amusements through Phillips Brooks House's Ticket Agency. Cambridge's only non-profit box office closes shop for the summer at 3 p.m. this afternoon...