Word: box
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...first of the Asian immigrants, indentured laborers on the Uganda Railway, were followed by thousands of enterprising countrymen, who became traders, clerks, and accountants, and who boosted East Africa's fledgling economy by penetrating the interior with their box-like "duka" shops. Under British control they occupied middle-level administrative jobs and monopolized many areas in trade and commerce...
...American Way of Death, and Col. Paul W. Feeney, director of the Massachusetts Selective Service System. Although few spectators appeared, the horde of defendants, counsel, and relatives necessitated setting up a double row of extra chairs--and at least one lawyer still wound up in the jury box...
During the next two weeks, 55 canvassers will contact each of the 3600 families in the model neighborhood. They will explain the model cities program and ask the residents to drop a "yes" or "no" vote in a portable ballot box...
Different Intervals. Meanwhile in a nonshocking version of his dark-box-light-box apparatus, Ungar tested the preference of untrained mice for darkness. Given their choice between a light or dark box, the test animals spent an average of 138 seconds of a 180-second test period in the dark...
Ungar then decapitated his fear-trained rats, and prepared an extract from their brains. He injected the extract into the brains of the untrained animals and found that the untrained mice began to shun darkness. The average time that members of one group spent in the dark box declined to 98 seconds when each was injected with three-tenths of a gram of extract. It went down to 67 seconds when the injection was increased to six-tenths of a gram, and to only 24 seconds when a full gram was administered. Other groups injected with extracts from the brains...