Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
From the corner called Madagascar had come its former Governor, dapper M. Marcel Olivier, recently elected president of the French Line. Accustomed to think internationally, M. Olivier appealed in his speech for a "Washington Conference" to end the present costly race between Britain, France, Germany and Italy, each of which has been squandering untold millions to build the champion liner of the Atlantic. "In the interests of that internationalism for which the world is striving," cried M. Olivier, "the French merchant marine is anxious to collaborate in avoiding wasteful competition...
...said The Friend again and stopped as he swung round the south-east corner for the fourth time. He stood dead in his tracks...
...fewer cigarets have been smoked this year than every month last year except August, and September's showing was better than the nine-month average, which was 10.12% below 1931's. Careful readers of financial pages could find an occasional paragraph tucked away in a corner reporting the price rumors and citing the popularity of cigarets as the cause, but newspapers were not inclined to go deeply into the subject-not so much through fear of hurting important advertisers' feelings as because of a traditional journalistic policy that those who do not advertise, and have no intention...
...editions. But with the exception of a special job run off for a Brooklyn store by Hearst's New York Evening Journal, no daily advertisement sported color until last fortnight when readers observed some copy of R. H. Macy & Co. in Hearst's morning American. In a corner of the display shone the Macy trademark, a red star...