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Word: corner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also Showing Just Around the Corner (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple. Bill Robinson, Franklin Pangborn and Charles Farrell in a gentle little comedy designed to explain the facts of the Depression to the youngest generation and to prove that for the cinema's No. i child actress, box-office oblivion is still far down the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Outside Westminster Abbey, while London police stood guard before locked doors, passersby saw a glint of light through stained-glass windows. Inside the Abbey, from behind a canvas screen in Poets' Corner, came the clanking of picks. Near the base of Edmund Spenser's monument gravediggers scooped up sand from beneath the stones, uncovered a lead coffin and evidences that two more bodies had been buried in the same grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Poet | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

When the stones were taken up, nothing was discovered except that Spenser's monument rested on somebody else's bones. Authorities hastily covered the graves, announced firmly that there would be no more digging in Poets' Corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Poet | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...years Dr. Kelly has mastered enough hobbies to satisfy half-a-dozen ordinary men. His enormous library contains large sections on Africa, astronomy, bird life, reptiles, fungi, biography and geology. Books litter all his rooms, and jammed in every corner of Dr. Kelly's house are snakeskins, turtle shells, stuffed birds, a duck-billed platypus, buffalo legs. Up to a few years ago Dr. Kelly kept a zoo of 20-odd live snakes in a chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers & Sons | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Lewis came up to score the third Crimson goal in the fourth period, and the Army did not score until a corner kick found its way into the Crimson goal late in the fourth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Eleven Defeats Yale--- Varsity Soccer Wins | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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