Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...
Names and address will be asked on the ballots distributed to students. Identification is to prevent against ballot-box stuffing. All ballots will be destroyed after counting...
Psychiatry is not yet 60 years old; it is the youngest and most controversial branch of medicine. But psychiatry's solemn clinical lingo (see box) has been snatched up, misused and overused by the man in the street. Parents and teachers speak knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even...
...moviemakers knew for sure why people flock to one movie and stay away from another, making millions in Hollywood would be much easier than it is. The clues are hard to find in Variety's box-office reports for last month. The Big Four...
...Macbeth" Welles was in full command again but again with unusual obstacles. It was made at Republic Studios (home of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry) but on a budget much smaller than that given to horse operas. Welles could not hire any "name" actors for either their experience or box-office, so he chose his cast from radio actors. They didn't ask large salaries and could give beautiful readings of the poetry. He was allowed only one set, so he chose to accent the primitiveness of the characters by setting Inverness in a hollowed mountain. He was allowed only...