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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...punch of most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Les Noces | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Either Charles Devens '32 or T.R. White '32 will bear the brunt of the pitching burden for the first year team while Coombs will be in the box for the schoolboys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 BASEBALL TEAM MEETS STRONG EXETER NINE TODAY | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

...starting box will be used in the races of the Interscholastic Meet in the Stadium on May 11, it was announced yesterday by Coach E. A. Farrell. This will be the first time that the apparatus has been used at Harvard, although the University of Pennsylvania used a similar arrangement in the Penn Relay Carnival last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO USE STARTING BOX IN INTERSCHOLASTICS | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...box, which is manufactured in Indiana, containes holes from which the sprinters can get a start. According to Coach Farrell no better start is obtained than was possible before, but the machine saves time and prevents the damaging of the cinder paths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO USE STARTING BOX IN INTERSCHOLASTICS | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

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