Word: matchboxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Prime Minister Attlee received a matchbox filled with U.S. coins-43? in all. A twelve-year-old, John Morris, had collected and saved them to send to the U.S. for comic books; instead, he was giving them to his dollar-hungry country. John's government accepted his 43?, and Clem Attlee wrote him a note: ". . . It was a fine idea...
These holdovers from last year will be supplemented mostly by a crop of yearlings which includes two ex-servicemen, Andy Laska and Frank Oftring, and an outstanding New York schoolboy last year, Bob Cousy. Bob Curran, a Junior, may also see considerable action tonight. Holy Cross, whose matchbox gymnasium is inadequate for anything but practice purposes, will be playing on its "home court" tonight...
Microfilm (using much greater reductions than are now common) could reduce the Encyclopaedia Britannica to the size of a matchbox, might even store the whole printed record of the human race in one moving van. All the information that the most learned scholar needs could be filed in one end of a desk...
...Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet and longtime agnostic, he received the last rites of the Roman Catholic...
...sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms are tapped on cafe tables. But he has been inventing carnival songs ever since he came to Rio from the farm ten years...