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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming out of Fine Arts 13, Vag met Rembrandt's ghost. "It would be better if you were never exposed to art at all," said Rembrandt. "This confounded vacuum approach. It puts my work in a box to be described by would-be aesthetes in technical terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...dazedly the neighborhood was left to fathom the unfathomable. Dead was Joseph Modica, 9, who was almost through making a Christmas present for his family out of letters cut from a cereal box and glued onto a backing. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Chicago School Fire | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...publication, though he periodically weeds and destroys some of his backlog. Occasionally absent-minded in conversation (he sometimes lapses into a preoccupied refrain of "da, da, da, da, da"), Pasternak is methodical in his writing habits. He first puts a watch on his desk, draws a pencil from the box he keeps there, and writes in longhand, reusing every sheet of paper (once on each side for separate works): "It's not only economical, but it's more cozy. The paper is not so fresh. It belongs to me, you might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...seventeen ragged minutes in the second period, play raged with nothing but an occasional offside whistle, before each side exploded with a sterling offensive play. With Dan Dolan of B.U. resting in the penalty box after tripping Mc- Laughlin, Fischer broke around the defense on the left and shot on Tanner. The puck bounced off the backboard, but the center grabbed his own rebound and stuffed it in the cage...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson Sextet Ties B.U., 5-5; Fischer Stars With Three Goals | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

...took some staunch play by the Crimson to tie the score, but Higginbottom followed up Fischer's 30-foot slap shot to close the gap at 8:19. With two B.U. players sharing the penalty box for seven-men-on-the-ice and elbow infractions at the 13-minute mark, the varsity pressed play at the Terrier end of the rink...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson Sextet Ties B.U., 5-5; Fischer Stars With Three Goals | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

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