Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reliably informed, the lion lay down with the lamb in the square; at least, it was something of that nature. An acquaintance of ours was walking slowly down Mass Avenue, staring into space, and carrying in his hand a new, unwrapped, strikingly striped club tie. Suddenly, at a corner, a small, ferret-like individual bumped into him, nearly bowling him over; in the confusion, the tie dropped into the gutter. The small one, before our friend could move, darted to pick it up. Its owner muttered thanks, and extended his hand for the object. But its rescuer withheld it, moving...
Having swept the small fry from the greensward in the Yard with their magnificent presence on Saturday, the Army Cadets scattered in all directions. Some went to eat; others became conspicuous in their grey-blue bathrobe effects at a drafty corner of Memorial Hall where they listened to a picked handful of Union Square athletes. But many climbed up into Widener for a bit of sightseeing. The turnstile area was soon clogged with cadets. Partly from curiosity and partly from necessity about a dozen stepped gingerly into the Farnsworth Room. To their complete astonishment, a scholarly young man sitting...
...libraries is their convenience. On the one hand this convenience dispenses with the major reason for wanting to take books out by the week. When the library is a mile away, there is some excuse for reserving books over a long period; but when it is just around the corner this excuse is entirely removed. On the other hand, the proposed policy would tend to destroy this great virtue of convenience, for the books of the library would no longer be always readily accessible, but many of them would be scattered to all parts of the building. With these books...
Articles and illustrations were as breezy as a college cheering section, as offhand and undocumented as a street-corner argument. William Hard, seasoned, voluble Washington correspondent and radio com mentator, wrote the leading piece on the Chiselers; very brisk and readable...
...reasons fear the implications of enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest monetary scheme does not raise its commodity prices. And off in his corner, cleaning his battered blunderbuss and muttering imprecations about broken campaign pledges, sits little G.O.P., eager for the January fray. Indicative of the changing, wavering attitude of the public is yesterday's Herald-Tribune front page "news-story" which analyzes the disconcerting present and the uncertain future of the NRA, thus...