Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...batting cage on the first team field was completed yesterday and will probably be put to its first test tomorrow. The affair consists of two framed alleys approximately 60 feet in length and eight feet wide covered with net on the sides and back. A pitcher's box is such a way that a ball coming from one runway cannot possibly strike the man who is pitching into the other By this device Coach Mahan hopes greatly to facilitate battery practice which has hitherto been carried on solely with the old type of backstop...
Singing and dancing is best combined in the following musical diversions: Ziegfeld Follies, The Student Prince, Rose-Marie, Lady, Be Good; Music Box...
Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
...box.' Boxing is good, but not for fun. Boxing is protection only. I know boxing myself. Not what you call boxing, but what we call 'la box.' There are many forms of 'la box...
...attacks you, heu, you kick him in the jaw so. It is all called 'coup de pied.' But it is dangerous, very dangerous. While you kick, so, to the jaw, he may kick your other leg. Then down you go. No, I prefer fencing to 'la box,' for there you have the mask and you have the glove. Above all, there is the head...