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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, traditionally the world's banker, and for Wall Street, now the world's safe deposit box, Sir John Simon's order to investors to "Buy British" recorded another portentous retreat from the free capitalism of Adam Smith. Under it, Britain found that capital export opened markets, expanded prosperity across national boundaries, employed surplus British wealth. Today, British capital is no longer exported in this sense; it flees, and its flight is at this time a drain on national resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Buy British | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...years ago in wind-whipped Liberal, Kans., where his father, Clarence Martin, had set up one of the first hardware stores in the Sunflower State's southwest. Working from the time school was out until bedtime, Martin's son, Glenn Luther, methodically turned out biplane box kites at the rate of three a day, sold them for 25? apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...third, Bowen singled to start things off for the Big Red and scored ahead of George Polzer when the latter poled out a long homer far over Gene Lovett's head in deep left field. Healey was driven from the box in the fourth as Finneran and Brown connected for singles with a sacrifice hit by Sickles sandwiched in between to account...

Author: By Stan Cohen, SPORTS EDITOR, CORNELL DAILY SUN | Title: ITHACANS TROUNCE CRIMSON NINE 4-0, TAKING E.I.L. LEAD | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

Pitchford turned in a fine mound job, striking out Milton batters at random. In the batters' box Captain Mike Rice a shone getting two hits before he left the game in the eighth with a bad ankle. Jimmy Lynch also accounted for a bingle that went for three bases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Snare Sixteenth Win, Downing Milton, 8 to 4 | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...that day, however, an overworked Tom Healey started for the Stahlmen in the box and found that his control was not quite what it can be. He was behind almost every batter right from the beginning. This time he is rested and ready for action. Slim Curtiss and Charley Brackeit will go in if Healey falters over the nine inning route...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen to Face Cornell at Ithaca Today | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

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