Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Harry Truman, his family and 200 others boarded his special train, sped noisily off to Philadelphia for the "Army-Navy game. This year he sat on Navy's side, bobbed up & down in his box seat as Navy officers got between him and the play, stayed until the last play, the last whistle...
...Harvard's first woman faculty member, Dr. Helen Maud Cam, became the first female to attend chapel services since public prayer was instituted at the university 312 years ago. This left Harvard only one male sanctuary-the press box at Soldiers Field...
...last week a woman was found unconscious in a hotel room, with an empty box of sleeping pills beside her. She was pronounced "apparently dead" by an ambulance attendant. After the attendant had gone, a policeman noticed perspiration on the "dead" woman's brow, gave her artificial respiration and kept her alive. At week's end her condition was "fair and improved." All 13 of New York City's municipal hospitals decided to send interns, rather than attendants, on ambulance calls...
...them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than hell, the Navyman whistled up his scrubmen. They scrubbed and scrubbed, Navy-way -but still the Geiger counters sang...
...regular sale of tickets for the forthcoming HTW production of Troilus and Cressida will begin today at the Harvard Cooperative Society and the box office of the Brattle Theatre. The play is scheduled to run at Brattle Hall from Wednesday, December 8, through Saturday, December...