Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar with the geography of the South know that Memphis is located in the southwest corner of Tennessee, with Mississippi's boundary line a few miles south, and Arkansas just across the broad Mississippi River. It is the largest city and "capital" of the triStates. Naturally when serious shooting, stabbing, beating are administered in neighboring parts, first thought is of Memphis. The city is more than glad to offer its well-equipped hospitals, skillful surgeons to dying men, but when time is a more potent factor than medical science, it is unfair to discredit Memphis with the murder...
...from a holiday in Havana, following his bridge victory over Sidney S. Lenz, to announce that he had just invested "every cent" of his money in U. S. stocks. Said he: "I am making the biggest bet of my life. . . . My bid actually is that we turn the second corner in about two months...
...allows the newspaper writers effectively to spread the doctrines of an impending war depends on the student. It is he who concludes from the pictures of our soldiery on duty in the Orient in 1927, and of massive members of our battle fleet, that war is just around the corner...
With the erection of traffic lights at the corner of Kirkland and Oxford streets, it became necessary to cut down two large trees, situated one on either side of the southernmost light, in order to make the light more readily visible to approaching motorists...
...Last week, they were reassured, the new title did not mean his retirement. John Thomas started as Firestone's first chemist. He was then 28, got a salary of $100 a month, a $10 raise from his previous job. The company employed about 700 men, and a corner of one shop was partitioned off for the laboratory. He had gone to Buchtel College, now Akron University, had a degree and was proud of it, though he was the only college graduate employed by Firestone for many years. Now he is affectionately known to everyone as "J. W." just...