Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pond ducks was splashing near an empty boat. "Want to see something interesting?" (He stepped over the seats and pointed to a small wooden box in the rear) "See that--eleven duck eggs! That's the mother over there--they're mallards. We put some excelsior in this box after she laid the first egg and now she's laid ten more. They take thirty days to hatch and if you come back here then you can see duck chicks right on the boat...
...digital computer in 1944 filled an entire room, cost around $1,000,000. Today an equally efficient computer fits in a 5-ft.-by-5-ft. filing cabinet, and sells for less than $200,000. Some day, soon, big computers will be reduced to the size of a shoe box and sell for several hundred dollars...
Marriage Revealed. Jed Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz), 57, box-jawed, brilliant, longtime Broadway director-producer (The Front Page, Our Town, The Crucible); and Beatrice ("Bebe") Allen. 29, lynx-eyed ballet dancer; he for the third time, she for the second; on April 1, in Las Vegas...
...words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...
Home Service. In Akron, the Temple of Wisdom reported the theft of a poor box, $300 in cash, and a $250 mahogany pulpit...