Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architects would hear of no additions to their classic structure. The maintenance department had an old fan which they then placed at the top of the flue to draw the smoke, if not from the fireplace, from the wood itself. But again the smoke moped in a corner of the Common Room...
...give a relative $500,000 and she got it while I was still living. But they were hopeless, deadening things. Anyone who has the task of interviewing a former actress of repute . . . might just as well be an undertaker. My idea of real happiness is to find some small corner of the world, crawl into it, and never again see my name in the paper until...
...minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself to one knee, tumbled back at the count of "ten." Revived in his corner. Kid Chocolate hung on the rones and sobbed miserably over his first knockout in 211 fights...
...group of scientists, financed by the Rockefeller Institute, have been secretly carrying on important chemical research work for three months in an out of the way corner of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory, it was revealed yesterday in a survey of the grounds. Under the direction of Assistant Professor of Chemistry George B. Kistiakowsky, these men, veiled in secrecy and unwilling to divulge their plans, have completed a complicated mass of apparatus, that it is hoped will measure in a more direct and accurate manner the amount of heat evolved in a chemical change, and expect to be several years...
...three-story Dunhill's on the corner of Fifth Avenue and soth Street in Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building will handle all traditional Dunhill gadgets and in addition, bars, drinking outfits, wines & liquors, antique silver, women's sportswear, women's pipes. Features: the world's largest air-conditioned humidor holding 4,000,000 cigars and vaults for customers' private cigar stocks; a glass-enclosed blending room where a professional woman blender will manufacture special cigarets and tobaccos to order; a bullet-proof cash room...