Word: corner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brooklyn Ice Palace is on the corner of Atlantic and Bedford avenues. The following is the best way to get there from the Grand Central Station...
There was a small fire in the Rotch Laboratory Building last night shortly after 6 o'clock. The blaze was detected in a corner of the cellar by the janitor of the building, and the engines arrived before much damage had been done...
Dunster Hall, on Dunster Street, was built in the nineties and at the time was the finest private dormitory in the neighborhood of the University grounds. Little's Block is situated on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street...
...often whole walls missing, roofs gone or rent and torn, the civilians were coming back. I saw stores being reopened, houses being set up, debris cleared away. I saw a meat market starting again, the people passing in and out through a hole in the wall, the whole corner of the building having been sheared off. I saw a clothing store again in operation--in what appeared to be a booth, the whole front of the place having been blown out--oh, it's pitiful to see the way these poor people come back--pitiful and yet almighty inspiring...
...note my address has changed once more. Another corner has been turned by me and I'm in a strange, unfriendly street again. Of course in time it will become homelike as any habitat of needs must. But now it is a lonesome sort of place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days...