Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro from Marshall's Corner N.J. had not decided to get out of his truck and relieve himself in the woods a mile from Hopewell last week, a half-dozen accredited negotiators and a hemisphere's police would still be looking for kidnapped, murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Into every crack & corner of Pennsylvania went Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. (retired), campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination. A Dry, he was endorsed by Governor Gifford Pinchot. He made 126 speeches (preceded, he said, by 126 silent prayers). But neither speeches nor prayers availed him. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, a Wet supported by Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine, last week won renomination by a 350,000-vote majority...
Architects Lewis Greenleaf Adams & Thurlow Merrill Prentice of the Briton Hadden Memorial had little ground to work on but they stretched that little far to house the "Oldest College Daily" (founded 1878). Plunked down where it belongs, on a corner central to Yale's ramified, citified campus, the building rises three neat stories in a Gothic style. Downstairs is a spacious heelers' room papered in old issues of the News, Running around the four walls of this room is a wide work-desk of oak, thick enough to withstand the initial-carving of generations of heelers. Downstairs also...
Last week, fighting Mickey Walker at the Chicago Stadium, Levinsky started out as though his pugilistic competence had suddenly become commensurate with his earning power. He ran out of his corner, danced about for two minutes waving his large hands in an awkward way, then whacked Walker's snubnosed face, first with a right, then with a hard left hook. Walker, dropped by the punches, got up before Referee Ed Purdy could start a count. He was groggy for the rest of the first round, wary for the next two, but he started a rally in the fourth. Fighting...
...this time Devens was putting on one of his usual exhibitions of bewildering curves. His amazingly fast delivery was steadier than ever, and most effective in the corner-cutting outshoots, which start from a good distance to the side of the pitcher's box and fade away over the left quarter of the home plate...