Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commissioner of public safety and a police judge he listened to a short speech by one Michael Rusch, 23, who moved to Passaic five years ago from Alsace-Lorraine. Michael Rusch explained that he was an inventor in a small way. The officials watched his demonstration. The small box, 6 in. x 4 in. x 1 in. which he drew from his pocket was, he explained, a radio receiving set. He snowed how the aerial, a tiny wire, could be fastened to the lapel, buttons or cuffs of one's coat. He brought out collapsible earphones and an electric...
...opening of the second stanza, Chase broke through the opposing defense, but both his scoring bid and the rebound shot were stopped by Silverberg. Gibson was sent to the penalty box for crosschecking, and the Crimson launched a fierce assault on the weakened Terrier line. A lightning bit of passwork, Clark to Hamlen to Clark nearly netted a counter for Harvard, but Gregory, breaking up another passing game between Scott and Durant, carried the puck the entire length of the rink, but his hard shot caromed off Morrill's skate. Late in the period the Crimson skaters consistently pierced...
...babies A box at 'Abie's Irish Rose'; I hope we live to see It clo-o-se. ..." -OLD SONG...
American Grand Guignol. One might expect the French horror-plays, in view of the season's successful exploitation of all phases of sex perversion, to prove fascinating box-office material. Not so. Perhaps it is because the theatre is way down in one of the Greenwich Village nooks of inaccessibility; possibly because one-act plays do not sell in Manhattan; possibly, also, because the production is heavyhanded. In one play, a paralytic suddenly discovers he has the ability to strangle daughter-in-law, which he does with gusto. In another, choice Chinese diabolisms are dramatized. On the whole, there...
...offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted of ten thin plates of bismuth,* piled one on another, with wires running between them, the whole protected by sulphur and contained in a box. It exploited bismuth's properties of rectifying alternating currents and of adding to any charges of energy it receives. . . . Dr. Craig temporized with the $100,000 offer...