Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time...
...reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
Thomas K. Holmquest: Harvard Radio Network, Business Staff, Crime Box, Eliot House Dance Committee, House Christmas Plays, P.B.H. Ticket Agency, Ivy Films, Senior Editor of Yearbook Publications...
...answer to the first of each pair questions is completely affirmative, there no need for flexibility in the Faculty. But less the second questions can be answer definitely to the negative, a certain amount sensitivity to student box office demand necessary...
...field of radio education must start in a spirit of experiment and must be backed by peculiarly idealistic sponsors with at least a little imagination. It is conceivable that someday you could flick the dial on your radio and hear something like this "...so just send in two box tops and 10 cents, ladies, and you will receive a neatly packaged, simplified version of Professor Kluckhohn's stimulating new text, "The Curious Habits of Navaho Married Couples.'" But it is also conceivable that radio could be a very strong educational force--especially for adults and isolated communities...