Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance marathons and bunion derbies seems highly improbable, and yet today in Cambridge something unique in the field of competitions, a phonograph listening marathon, is to be started. Promptly at 3 o'clock two Harvard students are to take their places in the windows of the Music Box, Cambridge's tiny shop on Holyoke Street, and there begin to listen without once stopping, to all and any one of the some 5000 odd records which the Music Box has in store...
Made of a tin box, an iron pipe, a pinch of gun powder, a box of matches, sandpaper and some wax, the "bomb" turned out to be a "practical joke...
...Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh seam coal into the fire box, made an experimental trip over the 786 miles between Chicago and Washington, † Normally four locomotives, changing at three stations, are necessary on the Chicago-Washington...
...Letter- Jeanne Eagels in the witness box...
...Cunningham. He bought and presented to the school the ring in which Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney defeated onetime world champion William Harrison Dempsey in Philadelphia (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926). It will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more paperweight than featherweight, will box, mimicking in miniature the giant punches of the champions who once battled there. Here too will box lusty footballers who later may lead teams at Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton...