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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like all the rest of you, even when she was very tiny, she was busily doing whatever mother was doing and early learned to sew, to knit, to dust, to sweep, to set the table, to stand on a box and help with the dishes at the sink, to dry them shinily and to put them away on the cupboard shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Little Girls | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Then, too, boxing does not require any more equipment than a pair of trunks and some tennis shoes. We furnish the gloves. You do not have to change into a special uniform everytime you come down to box...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FISTIC FANS WANT BOXING TO BE RECOGNIZED AS MINOR SPORT | 10/27/1926 | See Source »

...York declared that January would behold quantity production of a "foolproof," silent refrigerator without any moving parts,* in which a liquid is kept circulating by a gas flame. At one point in its circuit, the liquid absorbs heat, producing cold. Housewives could see themselves "lighting the ice-box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gifts of Gas | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...controversies to be passed upon, but in a change in the voters themselves. And one of the most logical reasons for such an alteration is the fact that the voters have been informed, through the expose of the political scandals that all is not well with the ballot box, and that the Probabilities of corruption are manifold. There fore the desire to bring about a plausible amount of integrity in public office has drawn voters to the polls who have no interest other than to see capable and, as far as possible, honest men as their representatives. The result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RENAISSANCE OF THE BALLOT | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Gong." Even though the character of the Girl in the Red Hat did not appeal to some of the patronesses, the University in general received it with enthusiasm. The New York production, under the same director, closed after a short run. It caused much comment, but the box-office, one hears, failed to do its part...

Author: By J. B. K. ., | Title: THE GARBAGE MAN, by John dos Passos '16. Harper and Brothers New York. 1926. $2.00. | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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