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Word: corner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard started the scoring in the first inning, McCaffrey counting for the first score on DesRoches's long three-base clout to right field, being soon followed by DesRoches himself, who scored on a wild pitch. The veteran guardian of the hot corner found himself a bit yesterday afternoon, poling out three hits out of five times up. McCaffrey also showed up much better at the bat than he has previously, collecting three safe hits out of three chances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE LOSES TO CRIMSON IN 13 TO 2 FIASCO | 5/1/1931 | See Source »

...last year's regular third-sacker is unable to cover the hot corner, Mitchell will put in Rex, while Bassett will be used in right field, Rex's regular position. With DosRoches at third, Rex will be relegated to the outfield. Either MacHale or Page will be on the mound for Harvard, with Sheldon doing the catching. MacHale is gunning for his fifth victory of the season, while the Crimson backstop will be out to improve on his showing of Saturday, when he seemed hard put to it to handle Devens's fast ones, two of the pitches going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVAMPED NINE TO MEET COLBY TEAM THIS AFTERNOON | 4/28/1931 | See Source »

...going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break her arm to get there? She could have hidden the pistol he handed her in her handbag, but instead she hid it in the sling?for romance, for Victor Hugo, immortal originator of gangster fiction. It seems right for her to wear the sling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

Mortician Hoffman put up a canopy at the grave, at each corner a blue floodlight operated by storage batteries. (Few cemeteries have electric light wires through them.) The 400 mourners rode up in 93 automobiles and four sets of headlights were aimed to give further illumination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Burial at Night | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Your Highness! Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply on his sentimentality." Afterwards Goethe seldom mentioned Beethoven, but sometimes he had his music played. But the music scared him, he never really liked it. He would sit iri a corner and growl: "It is stupendous, absolutely mad. It makes me almost fear that the house will collapse. And supposing the whole of mankind played it at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lyre v. Orchestra | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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