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Word: corner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than a minute later, Ned Williamson, Queens, right wing veteran, split the Crimson defense on a solo dash and slipped a hard shot past Freedley into the corner of the net to conclude the scoring in the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greatly Improved Varsity Sextet Upsets Queens in Garden Clash | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

White's, Boodle's, Brooks's still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First Fifty | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...grew to a claimed 400,000 members and signed up 850 textile plants, brusque and able Sidney Hillman gained in stature. He did not trouble to conceal Francis Gorman's descent into obscurity. Labor gossips soon reported that Mr. Gorman was fretting in his Washington corner. Last summer, he confirmed the gossip by suddenly quitting the council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secession from Secession | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

During the crossing the passengers kept largely to themselves. But when the liner skimmed down over Croydon, then unaccountably roared back up into the air, the plot began to thicken. A mechanic came back into the cabin, lifted up a corner of carpet, pried at a section of floor board. Those who ventured to look below saw fire apparatus and ambulances gathering on the field. The ship's electrically retractable landing wheels had jammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Yankee Toast | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Stillman's successor should be built in a place as close to the Hygiene Building as possible. There are three prominent possibilities. The first is the territory from the Hasty Pudding Club to the corner, across the street from the Hygiene Building. Another spot would be on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House, The third and most likely possibility would be the University parking-lot on Mount Auburn Street. While the first would occasion the demolition of buildings and the second the defacement of the Lowell House entrance, the third would only require the utilization of a convenient outdoor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW INFIRMARY | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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