Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest, best known and second oldest national park is Yellowstone, tucked up in Wyoming's northwest corner. Last week hundreds of vacationers were pouring in through its east portal, Buffalo Bill's Cody. For about 50 mi. you follow the Shoshone ("Stinking Water"), whose warm springs never let it freeze, before you are in the park proper. You bed down that night in the Government log lodge at Yellowstone Lake, fifth highest in the world. This year the guides are taking parties of four over to Shoshone Lake for a chance at the big Mackinaw trout. Molly Island...
...Young gentleman" with a club. This rough frontiersman-teacher kept a diary, in which he related how he set out 30 apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard of his house. This original Yard extended across the site of Wadsworth House (the yellow wooden building at the corner of the Yard next to Lehman Hall) to about the middle of University Hall and including an extension to "Charlestown Road", (Kirkland Street), covering the site of Holworthy and Stoughton. It was not until 1835, however, after a long-career as a cow-pasture and wheat field that the Yard attained...
Looked at disinterestedly the tempest is amusing. Of course these subscribers do not mean all they say and must realize it after they have expressed themselves. Neither sex has a corner on good or evil or ignorance or knowledge...
...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...
...reported to have bought and taken delivery in May on 4,000,000 bu. of rye, now stored in warehouses-about half of the visible supply in the U. S. If he tries to get a corner grainmen prophesy that he will take a beating; conversely, talk of a corner may contribute to his profits. Last week he maintained his usual canny silence, for the time being in Florida which possesses not only good telephone connections with Chicago but also real estate well suited to his talents...