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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanta get your foot up on the box?" urged the boy as he eyed Lucius' aging Indian Tread cordovans. "Awful lotta books you got there...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Dangerous Interlude | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...remembrance of gay things past, officials of the mellow (founded in 1768) London publishing firm of John Murray, Ltd., unlocked for a TIME reporter a keepsake secured from a best-selling client of long ago, the amorous, glamorous 19th century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Inside a musty tin box were dozens of tiny parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which had been snipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...university news bureau, speak up. There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cheatniks Among Beatniks | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

What form should a museum take in midcentury? There is the palace-a grand gallery with lofty, vaulted skylights. There is the closed box-an exhibition space sealed off from outside light and divided into cubicles where displays can be lighted with the calculated drama of a stage set. Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, whom fellow architects rank with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, accepts neither form. In Mies's view, a museum should be composed only of "three basic elements-a floor slab, columns and a roof plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Room | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Gruber now sniffs a new trend. Last week Lorillard began test-marketing a cork-tipped, cigarette-sized cigar in a flip-top box. Price: 35? for a pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Filters' Friend: LEWIS GRUBER | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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