Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday New York Times was intriguing: FOR THE DISCERNING BUYER: SUBMARINE FOR SALE. Offered was a "fully equipped" but "de-armed" submarine capable of carrying 70 passengers and crew, with a cruising range of up to 9,000 miles. Prospective purchasers were invited to mail their inquiries to Box F7266, care of the Times...
...that session, which President Reagan cheerfully reviewed as the "most successful of the six I have attended," Treasury Secretary James Baker helped to win endorsement of an ambitious plan to control the volatile relationship between the U.S. dollar and other currencies through tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar on a roller-coaster plunge in relation to the Japanese yen and the West German mark...
...experiments with gliders, the Wrights learned to control flight by wingwarping: tilting one wing up while bending the other down compensated for the unbalancing effect of the wind. The mechanical principle and its realization became clear to Wilbur one day while he was idly twisting a long inner-tube box. A historian would later equate the importance of this incident with Newton's observation of a falling apple. Biographer Howard is more restrained and more engaging when he attributes the insight to a "genius for the tactile" born of long experience handling wood, cloth and metal...
Henry David Thoreau beat Donald MacDonald to plywood sleepers more than 100 years ago, when he wrote in Walden: "I used to see a large box by the railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night; and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and . . . get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free...
Long known for his dazzling sleight of hand on the basketball court, Earvin ("Magic") Johnson outmaneuvered his competition in the ballot box last week as he was named the National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player. The 6-ft. 9-in. Michigander is the first guard in 23 years to win the award and only the third to do so in N.B.A. history. Receiving 65 first-place votes and a total of 733 points from the selection panel, Johnson, 27, streaked past Chicago Bull Michael Jordan (ten votes) and Boston Celtic Larry Bird (one vote), who had been named...