Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's authorities on Government, Professor Elliott wants the United States to force the Allies to pay their debts. He would induce them to cooperate in a United States corner or a limited embargo against the fascists of certain war materials, such as tin, scrap iron, and steel...
...clock at South Station. As he slumped in his seat, the last few breaths of life seemed to wheeze slowly in and out of his lungs. He had aged tremendously. His hands shook, and even when he spoke to the conductor, his voice whispered from a far away corner. It was no wonder that the N.Y., N.H. & H. hostess in her gray and red uniform led him forth from his seat like the Pied Piper with the magic words: "Grill Car in the rear...
...State of Maine and ruggedly lumpy as ever were the Hartley landscapes. But his figures - first he has painted in years-included several strong studies of Nova Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...
Harvard graduates from every corner of the country will assemble in New Orleans on April 14 for the three-day convention of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Besides the list of speakers, headed by President Conant, the alumni will be feted at several dinners and given an opportunity to play a couple of rounds of golf...
...intellectual farm organizer and his wife; a rising automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...