Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month of slush and a series of mishaps on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...
...When Bunnie saw her coming down the street he dropped his eyes, a curious little thrill ran over him, and every now and again he coughed. Some days he was early and would have missed her, but for the ruse that he had lost a shilling at the last corner and was forced to turn back...
...running through the Harvard Square district, is one of the most striking examples of modern street traffic regulation. The most important step to consider in making traffic regulation in Harvard Square safe and efficient is the installation of these lights throughout. Massachusetts Avenue should have those signals at every corner from the Cambridge Common to the new Underpass next to M. I. T." Professor McClintook said, "We are now making a survey for the city of Chinese. ally the 'Loop District', and will probably advocate the use of this time-interval system throughout...
Announcement comes from Washington of a "campaign to stop hoarding." House-to-house canvasses will be made throughout the nation, urging pater families to withdraw his money from the chimney-hole and put it in the corner bank. Colonel Knox, director of the campaign, has said that it "must convince people that the banks are vital to their own interests. The bank is a part of the machinery of life." The people who have lost their life-savings by the closing of banks throughout the country certainly will be surprised to hear that...
...Japanese garrison maintained in the Japanese section of the International Settlement. Armored cars with searchlights led the way. Behind them came trucks, jammed with infantry. In reserve were infantry, on foot. Crash! Crash! went the rifles shooting out the street lights as the columns advanced. At every corner trucks stopped. Men hopped out to scurry through the side streets. In the dark twisting alleys no living thing showed but a few frightened dogs, a few yellow-eyed cats. A few airplanes zoomed overhead. One accidentally dropped a bomb in the foreign quarter...