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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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ERROR--The Gold Coast Valeteria has not raised its laundry rates as noted in Friday's complaint box...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Waste Money! | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

Fleet Streeters gaped. There it was, in a front page box of Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail: GOOD MORNING! FRANK OWEN

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Cheer Up Too | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Some 56 million U.S. people, week in & week out, go to the movies. The nation's 1946 film audience is the biggest in box-office history.*For optimists who wistfully hope that the movies may some day grow up to be Art-i.e., from mediocre to first-rate entertainment-this is bad news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A. P. & Want-to-See | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Special Delivery. In San Diego, John McGrath mailed a postcard in a garbage can, discovered his mistake, mailed a duplicate in a mail box; the first card was delivered first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Inner Man. In Manhattan, Jesse Blades, in happy retirement after 20 years as a cop, saw a police signal box, obeyed his impulse, got a court reprimand for shouting "vile and abusive language" into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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