Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't slept an hour since night before last," Senator Glass declared out of the corner of his mouth. But fatigue did not diminish the little Virginian's ardor of exposition. He admitted that there were sections of the bill that "shocked" him. Pointing to its anti-hoarding provision as "arbitrary," he said: "I don't know who there is with wit or wisdom enough to define hoarding...
Glass-"Little banks!" Little corner grocerymen who get together $10,000 or $15,000 and then invite the deposits of their community and then at the very first gust of disaster topple over and ruin their depositors! What we need in this country are real banks and real bankers...
...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...
Erratic motorists during the last month have caused the maintenance department of the city of Cambridge over $100 for replacements on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, opposite the Lampoon building. Between midnight and six o'clock in the morning, seven "Stop Then Enter" sign posts have been sheered off by wandering vehicles, and four "one way" arrows have gone to grace collections of similar objects de virtu...
...time the Smith Halls were remodelled to form Kirkland House, a new Master's house and dormitory unit were erected at the corner of South and Dunster Streets, and a second unit was built near the corner of South and Boylston Streets, adjoining the Hicks House, which serves as the Kirkland Library...