Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd squealed happily. Fat and cocky, Ruth faced the grandstand and held up one finger. After throwing two balls. Pitcher Root got over another strike. This time the players in the Cubs' dugout peered and chuckled. Still cocky, Ruth held up two fingers. The next pitch broke over the corner of the plate. Ruth swung at it. There was a crack. Centerfielder Johnny Moore started to run; then he stood still and watched the ball, a dwindling white spot against the blue sky, clear the ware fence and drop 436 ft. from the plate, one of the longest homeruns...
Washington. Oregon and California stopped, looked and listened last week as Franklin Delano Roosevelt preached them his gospel of "a new deal." At Los Angeles, the two-thirds post of his campaign tour, the Democratic nominee turned the corner and headed east with his no-error record still standing. If September crowds and applause meant November votes (which no rule says they do) the Pacific Coast...
...eighth round Max Schmeling suddenly pulled himself together and went to work. Mickey Walker was smacked to the canvas for a count of nine, then for a count of six. His mouth protector was slapped right into Schmeling's corner. The referee picked it up, awarded the decision to Schmeling, without boos. Even the Walker cheering section had to admit that Max Siegfried Otto Schmeling had fairly proved his claim to a match to regain his championship...
Usually gasoline price movements follow changes in crude oil prices. But last week crude remained at the levels it reached last April when the industry claimed to have "turned the corner." And herein lay the crisis. The narrow spread between crude and gasoline means small profits for refiners. Oilmen nervously watched production figures, feeling that the first surge of unwanted oil would upset the price structure. In Oklahoma, where troopers have dug up most of the illicit pipelines which secretly carried oil from shut-in wells to open wells, production was in hand last week. But enforcing proration has become...
...hour and a half, mother love is engaged in a deadly combat with an illicit attraction for a third corner,--all within the predominantly maternal bosom of la Dietrich. The theme is not new, but, with such a supporting cast, might have become convincing. After the first half hour, however, the audience loses interest in the plot. There is not too much disappointment; after all it has played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good...