Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Named after the pyx used for the same purpose in the British mint. Pyxis, the Greek and Latin word for a box, derives from pyxos, the boxwood tree...
Morning came. The negotiators, except influenzial Mr. Lewis, appeared in the courtroom of Judge George Murphy, brother of the Governor. They waited till the judge concluded a case. Then court attendants arranged seats, floodlights and movie cameras were carried in. Spectators scrambled over the jury box looking for points of vantage. Governor Murphy took his seat between Wyndham Mortimer, vice president of the Automobile Workers, and General Motors' Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen. The Governor borrowed a pen from Mr. Mortimer. He and Conciliator Dewey signed, next Mr. Knudsen-still with the Union leader's pen- then...
Seventeen and one-half minutes ahead of the average hour of breakage this week, the mail box in the Information Office of University Hall was handed in part to Miss Piscope Thursday morning by the postman...
...method of leaving mail in the box is the same as in an incinerator. The postman was undoubtedly startled when the entire movable part of the box, including the mechanism for keeping strangers' arms out, came off en masse. But he was not to be daunted by what he thought was a new device of the Maintenance Department, and handed it to Miss Piscopo with a man-of-the world expression, saying, "You'd better keep this where people can't take...
...held deep in thrall by a sweet young Vassarline, awaited high in hope a much-promised Valentine package. When the postman came, however, he was at the movies. But his roommates and friends saw their duty and did not flinch to do it. They signed the receipt, opened the box, and substituted four cakes of Lifebouy Soap for the contents previously therein...