Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shed in a whirl of smoke. Suddenly there was a great grinding of brakes. The train stopped. A detail of Secret Servants dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train, and this time the Special pulled out for good. The President settled back in his seat knowing that his 134-lb. sailfish, which would soon adorn the Smithsonian Institution, had not missed the train...
...last week's lecture Architect Le Corbusier tried to explain his Radiant City all over again. Speaking no English, he strode up & down with a box of colored chalks before enormous sheets of thin paper on which he scribbled skyscrapers on stilts, trees, frogs, elevated roadways, blue clouds, orange suns. The secret of Radiant City seemed to be to limit motor traffic to elevated roadways, put all buildings on stilts with playgrounds and footpaths underneath, roof gardens above...
...Rose had a man on a downtown stage practicing a high-dive into a cage of lions and tigers while a swarm of acrobats and jugglers put the last pat of perfection to their acts and a crew of stagehands struggled with a spangled, 40-ft. jack-in-the-box which pops out of something no bigger than a suitcase. In a Brooklyn riding academy, 16 acrobatic dancers were in training for an equestrian ballet. Inside the Hippodrome the enormous stage had been extended to include a circus ring, and upon it 400 animals, among them a white horse from...
Each lung, the anatomy lesson went on, is contained in a flexible box made up of ribs on the outside, the.diaphragm underneath, and a partition called the mediastinum on the inside. Between those sides of the boxes and the lungs is an airtight cavity...
Dialed in for gold at SEC headquarters, Mr. Haas approached a table on which were five covered boxes. Four contained assorted fruits & vegetables. One contained gold. Holding his indicator in his right hand, the grey-haired oldster moved it along over the line of boxes until it reached a box at which it began to vibrate vigorously. The box was opened. It contained an apple...