Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dead or alive, Andrés Nin was the focus of the Barcelona trial last week, just as Leon Trotsky was the focus of the Moscow trial after which 16 Trotskyists were executed (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). In the prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make...
Though the critical statement in Thursday morning's Music Box column concerning the concert of the Boston Symphony on Thursday is open to more comment than the one that, I have to make, I think it is important that I should make the following statement in order to justify Maestro Koussevitzky's choice of program, if justification is at all needed...
Cole estimated that the largest dividend which will be paid to a Harvard alumnus was in the vicinity of $180 and he attributed its size to the possible purchase of a fur coat or an electric ice box. Twenty-three dividends are under ten cents and more than 100 are over $33.00. The smallest dividend cannot be less than three cents because 25 cents is the minimum purchase that dividends may be computed...
...said they must draw lots. Rev. Mr. Hailwood delayed the proceedings while he read a statement to the effect that he disapproved of "gambling," therefore would not draw a lot himself, would let a proxy do it for him. His proxy then stepped up, drew out of the hat box for Parson Hailwood the slip marked "Elected...
...tree trunks between Washington and Baltimore will be chattering up above, sparking out the account of the game between the Big Red and the Big Crimson. But the Vagabond, psychic youngster that he is, will sense the presence of Ezra by more than the metallic clicking in the press box. Ezra, he knows, will be very much present on the opposite side of the field. The coed sitting in back of him will complain that she can't see through his old stovepipe hat, and her enthusiastic Cornell friend will smash that Lincolnian chapeau down over his ears...