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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...invitations, programs, and tickets for the Senior Spread will be given out on Tuesday from 9 until 1 o'clock and from 2 until 6 o'clock at Massachusetts 16. The Box lists must be handed in by then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENTORS | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

...freight engine when it drew into the station of Greenfield, Mass. As the train stopped, several persons tried to grasp the gargoyle's tail. Annoyed and impudent, he snapped it out of reach and hopped away through the freight yard. When finally captured in the corner of a box car, he was discovered to be a ridiculous hobo monkey who had escaped from a circus and boarded the freight train several towns away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Hobo | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...these harsh terms, 200 Methodist preachers in Los Angeles, Calif., protested the plan to have onetime heavyweight champion (1919-26) Jack Dempsey, box in an exhibition fight of which the receipts would be used to prevent foreclosure upon the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dempsey Rebuked | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...confined my questioning to such decisions as affected the ballot-box fortunes of the Negro in Dixie, and in not one case did Senator Glass either (1) decline to comment; (2) ask me to treat anything he said as confidential; or (3) request me to tone down the fervent quality of his responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chair Talk, Back Talk | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Misstep was leading. The first time the field passed the stand Reigh Count was in the little group that had been forced to the front. At the eighth pole Misstep still led the wafting line of color moving through the grey air opposite the stands. In her box Mrs. John Hertz of Chicago, owner of Reigh Count, stood with the tears running down her face watching the yellow shirt of her jockey, Chick Lang. As the horses moved into the turn Reigh Count swung out wide around Misstep, then pulled away to win. Toro was third and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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