Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience stationed themselves about the spot which marks the northeast corner of the building, some standing on the platform arranged for the purpose, and a great many climbing up on the piles of stones in order to command a better view. A choir, composed of picked members of the University Glee Club and the Chapel Choir, opened the ceremonies with the anthem. "A mighty fortress is our God." President Lowell then mounted the rostrum and made the introductory speech...
...This is a notable day in the annals of Harvard. We are assembled to witness the laying of the corner stone of a building that will not only surpass in its splendid proportions any other that has been erected for us in the two hundred and seventy-seven years of the life of Harvard University, but it will also fill a long felt and grievous want, for it will furnish a place where our students can make the best use of every volume helpful to their education; a home for the treasures of learning and literature that have accumulated here...
...artists. What irks them is that it usually takes a stereotyped kind of public rumpus (see col. 1) to get them their share of attention and criticism. Last year 58 Manhattan sculptors organized a guild to do something about this, and last week they did it. On a vacant corner lot in midtown Manhattan, rented from the city for $5, they put on an outdoor exhibition of about 90 pieces of sculpture which during its first five days attracted 8,000 strollers at 10? a head...
Years ago when the Yard cops were uniforms and Duchesses did not bathe in gold tubs there was an old pump on the corner of Matthews. Torn down in 1885 this pump existed long enough to provide workers in the old Coop with water for washing...
...Newton company, headed by Delling and Stevenson, hopes to have some cars on the market in a little less than a year. Their present headquarters is in the rear of Fred Marriot's garage midway between Newton Corner and Watertown. Marriot achieved lasting fame a generation ago when, as Stanley's chief test driver, he took off from a sandy stretch of beach in a steamer at 190 miles an hour and lived to tell the tale...