Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gingerbread Jewel Box. "I cannot tell, I cannot decide," a Western official in Cologne told me, "whether this Germany has two faces-or no face...
Sixteen solemn U.S. citizens filed into the jury box in a big walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
Anna grabbed her Chinese padded gown, a box of vitamin pills, three handkerchiefs, and followed her captors. "My mind raced madly . . . What, what, what had I done? Why, everybody liked me here! At the last diplomatic reception, Mme. Molotov had shown me a special favor . . . We turned . . . into the inner court of Lyubyanka prison . . . 'How,' I gasped, 'shall I ever get out of here...
...statistics in the box give the official exchange value in various foreign countries and the present rate if the money is purchased in the United States. Foreign currencies can be purchased at the Harvard Trust at the going U. S. market rate. Downing will be glad to help students planning a summer abroad work out their monetary exchange problems. Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas...
...this day of casting most roles with a tape-measure and a scale of box-office receipts, it is almost incredible to find motion pictures in which people talk and look and act just as they should. "The Little Minister" is one of them. Katherine Hepburn does the completely ingenuous ex-Gypsy girl, who wins over the young curate, with a burr in her voice and a freshness that trails heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail...