Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...head constable at Liverpool maintains that the story of the discovery on a trans-atlantic steamer of an infernal machine in a box, which had been intrusted to the care of the steward, is a hoax - that the box only contained brick...
...prize will be awarded to the competitor making a best on record. An entrance fee of two dollars for each event must accompany all entries. Entries close May 26th, and must be made by mail. All communications should be addressed to the Secretary National Association Amateur Athletes, Post Office Box 3478, N. Y. City...
...space, surrounded by the stalls for horses. This is to be the lecture room, which will be lighted from above. On this floor there are two offices, which have a separate entrance from the street. In addition to a padded stall for violent cases, there will be four large box stalls and six ordinary stalls. On the second floor, which is reached by an incline from the first, as well as by an elevator, there will be four box stalls and five extra-wide stalls, a large room for dogs, a pharmacy or drug room, and apartments for attendants. This...
...Yale News thinks that the man who could find the key to a fire-alarm box would "deserve to be the next president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, or of Yale College." The abilities required for one office might, perhaps, be found useful in the other...
...library." On the fly-leaf is the following interesting note by John Langdon Sibley: "After Webster's execution, search was made for this book, with the hope that it might result in some pecuniary benefit to his family. After a long time it was found in a box with minerals. Friends of the family were consulted, and the writer was advised not to mention it, but to appropriate this book to his private use. It belonged to Prof. Webster." This was the professor to whom Ben Butler's famous remark applied, that "we hanged one of them [the Harvard professors...