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Word: corner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last man one would go to for advice as to where to install a new drugstore would be the man with a successful drugstore on the opposite corner of the street from where you think you would like to build your drugstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges' water front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Corner | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris Augustine. Total: 13 girls five boys. Ages: 4 to 14. Grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...backboards on the Athletic Building floor was the convex type, much smaller than the regular board and slightly curved to allow a better view of the basket by a player shooting from the corner of the floor, while the other was the regulation size and shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPSTERS TUSSLE IN DEMONSTRATION GAME | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

Upon motion of Councilor-at-Large John J. Toomey, the Council passed a resolution asking the College to donate a strip of land on the northwest corner of the Yard which would be used in broadening the junction of Kirkland and Peabody Streets. The strip lies between Kirkland Street and Phillips Brooks House, and Peabody Street and Mower Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY COUNCIL WILL ASK STRIP OF LAND IN YARD | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

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