Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knocking Coveleskie out of the box in the seventh inning, and continuing their attack on relief pitcher Ballou, the Pirates yesterday defeated Washington, 6-3. Aldridge kept the Senators' hits scattered. J. Harris' third home run of the series was the batting feature...
...Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present, the boy was at one with the fine dead race that had set its city on a lofty rock-shelf of a box canyon. In later years, the time of this book, after Tom had died in France, St. Peter found that memories of the mesa filled the depths of his nature with a sacred finality...
...florid son-in-law took Rosamond and the professor's wife abroad; St. Peter escaped the jaunt with difficulty. He edited Outland s diary of the year in the cliff city, wrote a foreword and lay through long thoughtful evenings on his old box couch, covered with Tom's Navajo saddle-blanket. There was a high wind the night he had a cable from his returning wife, blew out the gas in the leaky heater. St. Peter smelled the room filling and wondered if he was obliged to save his life, now that it seemed so completed...
...Box. Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie, has been for a long time a fairly good comedian. He impersonated an elderly lady in Charlie's Aunt and made a great success. Therefore he impersonated a woman in his next picture; in this, his third, he still impersonates a woman. He is kicked in the stomach and falls furiously down stairs. He remains a fairly good comedian...
Promoter Tex Rickard. "I think Dempsey must be crazy.... I have what I consider an ironclad agreement with him to box Wills for me. I think I can hold him to this contract for an amount equivalent