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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General's box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Guineas | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...choice of his opponent is uncertain. Fons, star hurler who was roughly handled in a relief role in the first Holy Cross tilt, may draw the assignment, although indications point toward the selection of Dobens, a southpaw pitcher who plays in the outfield when he is not occupying the box, Dobens appeared in the ninth inning of the first game, and did not get a fair chance to display his wares against Harvard. Last Saturday at New Haven he shut out the strong Yale nine, 7 to 0, allowing only two hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND HOLY CROSS MEET TODAY | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...Dobens should start the game in the box for the Purple, Coach F. G. Mitchell will probably shift his lineup in order to send righthanded hitters against the formidable southpaw. J. E. Tobin '27 will take the place of W. W. Lord '28 on first base, while I R. Duchin '27 will be behind the plate instead of Henry Chauncey '28 if Dobens mounts the mound in the first inning. Lord and Channcey are stronger batters than their substitutes, but both swing the bat from the side of the plate nearest first base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND HOLY CROSS MEET TODAY | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand of the story is that I am a Greek named Philipso, emigrated to America, a great musician; carried my worldly possessions in a box marked S. O., U. S. A., therefore the patronymic." Mr. Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., 1854. His father was Portuguese, his mother Bavarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...have just read the letter of C. R. Crane, R. F. D. Box 24, Wagoner, Okla. [TIME, May 16]. Will you ask him if he will accept a continuance of TIME from me? I like TIME and believe if I were hit by his apparent misfortune I'd be pleased to have it come to me even then, however hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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