Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...
...Olson, Dartmouth captain and leading hurler, faced Ingalls on the mound. The Harvard box score: ab r h po a e Adzigian, 3b 4 1 2 3 1 1 Prouty, 1b. 4 0 1 5 1 0 Bilodeau, ss 4 1 1 3 2 0 Owen, 2b 3 2 1 2 1 0 Gibbs, cf 4 0 1 2 0 1 Colwell, c. 3 0 0 5 3 0 Sullivan, rf 4 1 1 1 0 0 McTernen, lf 4 1 2 3 0 0 Ingalls...
...Prouty, starting Yearling hurler, pitched fine ball until the seventh, when a four run Yale barrage with no outs drove him from the box, slim Curtiss then took up the mound duties, shutting out the Elis completely, not a man reaching first or gathering a hit for the remainder of the game...
...Suez last week as the British cruiser Enterprise passed through. Several dozen dejected Ethiopians could be seen under the quarter-deck awning, but among them was not the bearded, tiny figure all eyes sought. Haile Selassie, Conquered Lion of Judah, was below decks with a secretary checking over box after box of gold bars, clinking Maria Theresa silver thalers...
...Harvard box score: ab r h po a e Stevens. cf 5 1 1 1 0 0 Ulin, lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 Regan, 2b 4 0 2 3 3 1 Connolly, ss 4 0 1 2 2 0 J. Sullivan, 3b 4 2 1 0 3 2 Gray, 1b. c 4 1 3 7 0 1 Lewis, rf 4 0 1 2 0 1 G. M'h'n'y, rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 Linchit. c 8 0 1 8 1 2 R. Sullivan, 1b 1 0 0 6 0 1 Ross...