Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs have no conception of news in our terms, no hard facts. Their press conferences are soap-box diatribes against the Jews...
...When box-office receipts fall off, as they did last month, movie exhibitors try not to blame the product. In Washington, D.C., for example, last fortnight's slump was traced to the start of daylight saving time (the time shift did not seem to unsettle moviegoers in other cities). In St. Louis, the slump was blamed on bad weather; in San Francisco, on good weather. Elsewhere, exhibitors spoke vaguely of "seasonal influences...
...Box," the traditional curtain-raiser began the evening's activities. It is really just a short sketch expanded into a half-hour with music, a kind of parody of coincidence-filled drama, and a wonderful curtain line. Sir Arthur Sullivan was the composer, but the libretto was written by two gentlemen named Morton and Burnand. A few years later Sullivan entered into a much more successful partnership...
...TIME, April 19, a statement was made in the article, "Little Black Box," that a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt...
...weather cooperated, but the Detroit Tigers, after docilely dropping three straight to the Indians, didn't. At week's end, Pitcher Feller was knocked out of the box and Cleveland lost its first game of the season...