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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unhappiness, lifted from Capt. Carranza, descended upon the White House housekeeper. Hours since had the kitchens been scoured, the house put in order for the summer. She faced the President, spoke the truth: "We have nothing in the ice box, sir." A moment's hesitation, and the President was master of the situation. Said he: "Very well, we will eat out." They lunched at the Pan American Union building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President and I . . . | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

There is little to choose between the two. Both have been sporadic in their hitting, and the best hurlers of both pitching staffs have been pounded out of the box by slugging opponents. With both teams at their best, one can predict as close a hurlers duel as there has been in the whole series. With both or either nine in its less happy mood, there is no telling what kind of a score might result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Haven Game Today Opens Harvard-Yale Diamond Series | 6/19/1928 | See Source »

...From a box near the Prince's, Sir Hugh Cunliffe-Owen, a tall, grey-haired man, wearing a white top hat and a flower in his buttonhole, pressed through the crowd to congratulate his jockey, Henry Wragg. Owner of Felstead, Sir Hugh, collected a winner's purse of $55,000. Others, humble people carrying on difficult, dull lives, with no time to go to horse-races, had won more heavily than he on Felstead. A sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Epsom Downs | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Last night the patronesses for the Spread, the final list of Junior ushers, and the box and table list of the feminine guests were made known by Hamilton Heard '28, chairman of the Class Day Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Spread Initiates Week Of Festivity for Finishing Class | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Committee points out that boxes of even numbers are on the Yard side of the Delta. Boxes are numbered, tables lettered. The box and table list of the guests of the Seniors is alphabetically as follows. Adams, Katherine 48 Alden, Esther. 25 Allen, Evelyn M. 40 Alter, Mrs. David B. 58 Baker, Lydia C. 16 Baker, Mary. Barron, Mrelyn. 22 Barnes, Lois. 32 Baron, Edith. 5 Baylies, Ruth. S Beach, Helen Louise. 26 Bean, Julta. B Altschuler, Lillian 6 Andelman, Evelyn. 9 Antine, Hazel. 14 Anderson, Mary. 40 Beardsley, Francis. 38 Beauchamp, Juanita. 27 Bemis, Aice. 11 Bernstein, Florence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Spread Initiates Week Of Festivity for Finishing Class | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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