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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contemporary living . . . [Protestants] have thus far found no means of halting the anarchy which stems unceasingly from the Protestant principle of exalting the private judgment of each individual. When Luther posted his thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, he unleashed upon the world a Pandora's box full of the evils of paganism, free love, divorce, and error from which the world has not yet recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...single step that will ultimately do the greatest good is the removal of the Harvard Square subway kiosk. Should the MTA got around to establishing a Porter Square station, the pill-box would either be relocated or at least subjected to much less pedestrian traffic. Simultaneously, much of the bus transferring would be moved up to Porter Square, with a subsequent ease on Harvard Square motorists. Rerouting of all unnecessary trucks around the Square would further the solution...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...playing field to a London for scene. Had the Flock lost, it would have been the first time a game was lost by three minutes. Apparently it really started pouring immediately after the fifth inning, for a seeing eye dog from plate umpire Al Barlick reported to the press box with the intelligence that the game was hereby called...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Fifteen hundred more tickets to the Columbia game went on sale at 1 p.m. yesterday and presumably disappeared as fast as World Series ducats, which the Red Sox will start selling at their box office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors' Ducats Today | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...means of the "coding box," an operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys on the box...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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