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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary sought a booth, lifted its curtain cautiously, peeked in, went in. Three minutes* later he emerged, gently waved his ballot about, finally saw the ballot box, deposited his document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elections | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...There are 25,000 U. S. citizens in Paris. Consul General Orr went to the U. S. polling booths on the Boulevard des Italiens at the close of election day, opened the ballot box, found therein one vote, counted it, despatched it across the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Here, There | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plot, Pounce | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

Three hundred newspaper men and women sat in a curving, triple arc of chairs facing the judge's bench, the witness stand, the jury box, of a tiny courtroom in Somerville, N. J. The air was stuffy. An angular court crier (John Bunn by name) intoned in a creaky voice, "Hear ye. . . ." The reporters' pencils moved rapidly, their eyes searched the faces of the witnesses, the defendants, the lawyers. Occasionally a truck rumbled through the street outside. In here, a certain Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, the Messrs. Henry and "Willie" Stevens, were on trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Under The Crabapple Tree | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...like carrying a mail bag. Why else should I do it for 39 years? You put a letter in a boy's box, and wonder what it is. You can tell, sometimes, when you see the same writing turn up about once in so often. Here's a check, and here's a dance invitation, and here's something that is as welcome as a check. It looks like a woman's writing, too. You feel as if you get to know people, and are glad when they get good news, and sorry when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many of Harvard's Great Have Been Borne Mail by John Francis Dee--He Is Now Delivering to Second Generation | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

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