Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went on 'Hitler will die on . . . (varying dates according to the version of the story).' The driver, now thoroughly scared, put her uncomfortable passenger out at the next corner and drove on. She was stopped at the next crossroads by a policeman who asked her to take a badly injured man to the hospital. She could not well refuse and the policeman and casualty got into the back seat. On the way to the hospital the man died...
...zone as protection for their right flank from any counterattack. The likelihood of this attack, and its obvious menace to Belgium, was believed last week to have led King Leopold to tell Queen Wilhelmina that if the Germans invaded her land, his troops would have to occupy her southeastern corner to meet them. Also, it was understood, he would invite the British and French to cross Belgium to back...
Fruehauf Trailer Co. (first in 1938 truck trailer sales): "differential dual" wheels, with which a double-tired trailer can swing a corner and have tires 1 and 2 on each wheel revolve at different speeds. Claim: savings on gas and tires...
...last week Arthur Curtiss James, now 72, had turned another corner. The biggest railroad owner announced that he no longer felt able to handle the duties of Western Pacific's Board Chairmanship, that at year's end he would vacate...
Passers-by told Sheehan that they saw smoke coming out of an upstairs window in the house, and while he ran upstairs to investigate they turned in the alarm at the corner...