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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most drive-in movie operators, a nearby military base means a box-office bonanza. But not to Delbert Kinsel, proprietor of the Skyborn Cruise-In at Fairborn, Ohio. Every time a jet from busy Wright-Patterson Air Force Base howled overhead, it drowned out the sound track and rattled the patrons' teeth. To no avail, Kinsel asked the base commander to keep his planes on the ground at night. Once, in desperation, he even sent season passes to all Wright-Patterson pilots, innocently assuming that they would rather see a movie than fly their assigned missions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Loud Blue Yonder | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...University suffered, however, in its relations with non-academic people who considered that Princeton was giving a soap-box to a convicted perjuror capable of "charming and deceiving" gullible undergraduates. This view, unhappily, was supported by the popular press and two Congressmen who had no connection with the University except that they represented New Jersey districts...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The News from Nassau | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

...will direct an extra concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall, bringing to a close the BSO's 75th season. The program will be Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, the "Pathetique." Tickets are now available at the box office. Proceeds will go towards the Symphony's summer tour of Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Symphony | 4/26/1956 | See Source »

Botsford took over in left field for injured Dick Fisher. BOX SCORE ab r h po a e Levine, 3b 4 0 0 1 2 2 Cleary, 2b 2 0 0 2 1 0 Simourian, 1b 3 0 0 10 1 0 Hastings, ss 3 0 0 2 3 1 Botsford, lf 4 0 2 2 0 0 Getch, rf 3 1 1 1 0 0 Stahura, cf 1 2 1 1 0 0 Crosby, c 2 1 0 7 2 1 Repetto, p 2 0 0 1 1 0 Kessler, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- Totals...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Crimson Nine Defeats Brown, 4-2 | 4/26/1956 | See Source »

Walt Stahura broke out of 0-for-11 slump with a run-scoring single in the fourth and added another on a liner through the box in the sixth. Bob Hastings, who reached base on passes, scored each time...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Crimson Nine Defeats Army, 4-0, For Second Consecutive Shutout | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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