Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boller. Where cotton ripens evenly, all the bolls, open or not, may be taken at once. The new stripping machine is simpler than the picker. Its mechanical fingers simply remove all bolls from the branches brought in by the machine's arms, and drop them in a box...
...Government radio system. He added that he and the Columbia Graphophone Co. had succeeded in translating the electrical impulses or television into impressions on a phonograph record, whence they can be retranslated, making sights as well as sounds issue from the most modern version of a "music box...
Disappointed but not downcast, Dr. Reisner hunted further, in recesses of the Cheops Pyramid itself. Last May he found the tomb of one of Cheops' granddaughters and a canopic box containing organic matter in a yellowish liquid. Perhaps the organic matter was Queen Hetep-Heres' entrails, removed before mummification. But her mummy was still missing...
...University of Pennsylvania was continued. Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
...Reinhardt has taken in too many thousands of dollars in the show business to fall under suspicion as a disgruntled producer turned "arty." He has staged morality plays in gay Vienna in such a way that competing bedroom farces and Parisian revues forthwith perished of box-office anemia. But he realizes (as did Richard Wagner) that there is a distinction between the commercial theatre and the art theatre. Both are forms of entertainment, but one provides the audience effortless amusement; the other demands an audience of willing imagination. Reinhardt has surrendered the masses to the movies and incorporated producers...