Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better kind of phosphorus for matches is the red variety, which is used on the box in making safety matches, and catches fire if you rub it hard enough with the powdered glass and active chemicals in the head of the match. This is a mild-mannered, quiet sort of a substance, it doesn't catch fire in the air until you heat it quite hot, it won't dissolve in anything, and it can be eaten without any discomfort...
...account of his wildness. Even with a seven-run lead and instructions of let Middlebury hit, the Harvard southpaw was unable to get the ball over the plate. After he had passed eight men and hit two, Coach Slattery's patience gave out, and he sent Toulmin to the box. The latter breezed through the last two innings without trouble...
...Crimson was again ragged in the field, as the six errors in the box score testify. Todd made a fine running catch in the seventh, however, and Slayton and Jenkins pulled off a clever double play in the ninth. Campbell played a brilliant fielding game at first base. For Middlebury Papke handled seven hard chances flawlessly at short stop...
...Anthony Wayne Cook, grand old dame of the convention, President- General of the D. A. R., pronounced prophetic syllables regarding Prohibition. "Are we to receive our principles from the eminence of a soap box? Are the guarantees of free speech and of a free press to deliver us to malicious slander ? Is liberty to become license ? No, a thousand times no! Prohibition is the will of the people, and shall prevail. The Volstead Act will never be repealed...
Those who feel Summer coming on will find satisfaction in Stepping Stones, Runnin' Wild, Music Box Revue, Poppy, Kid Boots, Mary Jane McKane, Ziegfeld Follies, Chariot's Revue, Swept Little Devil, Vogues...