Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proudest Boast. Curley's book is sprayed with political maxims (see box) which, however amoral, surest an expert deeply fascinated by a great art. He scarcely bothers to deny the charges of corruption that soiled virtually his whole career. For the "Goo-Goo" (good government) forces he has sublime contempt: "There were the pitiable, simpering halfwits who went about nudging people in the side, pouring the devil knows what poison in their ears, and the brethren of hamlet and village, who had never seen Curley, gazed upon his countenance on posters that portrayed a baleful-eyed monster glaring...
...box score: ab r h rbi e Bergantino, 3b 5 1 3 1 0 Harrington, 2b 5 2 1 0 1 Simourian, 1b 4 0 1 0 0 Hasting, ss 5 0 3 0 1 Botsford, rf 5 0 0 0 0 Getch, If 3 0 0 0 0 Fisher, If 1 0 1 0 0 Stahura, cf 5 1 1 1 0 Haughey, c 4 1 1 0 1 Repetto,p 2 0 1 2 0 McGinnis, p 1 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...organic-and-metallic box attracts orgone, which passes into the inner box, but is prevented from escaping by the metal. The builders of the box say that the presence of the energy was detected by an increase in temperature of about one degree centigrade inside. It may also be measured on a sensitive scintillation counter, according to Reich, although the three say they have not yet tried this...
Some people, Griffith noted, can feel the flow of orgone from the box in the form of heat or in a "cool, refrehing prickling" feeling, and some feel mild electric currents at the discharge tube of the box...
...three plan to build a bigger box for more decisive results. Large-size accumulators, Reich claims, may be of therapeutic value because of the increased supply of orgone which is provided. His experiments with motors run by the energy have not yet been published...