Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecture Hall is a problem not only in its name, for many, many students have pondered over the questions: "Just when is new old?" but it offers its architectural symmetry(?) as an obstacle to the earnest undergraduate. Approaching the west basement stairway from the corner where traffic is to be dredged, the student, in a hurry of course, finds two routes possible in order to get to the stairway...
...From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
Harvard took the lead at the beginning against a heavily favored Spring field eleven, but early in the second period Munro, of Springfield, took a corner kick on his head and popped it into the net. Thereafter Springfield held the edge in the game, scoring a second goal in the fourth period...
When U. S. citizens first purchased medicines from the corner apothecary, they gave little thought to the training of the dispenser. Today state laws require all pharmacists to be registered, and before they are granted licenses they must pass rigid examinations--examinations that require careful training. To provide this training 70 U. S. colleges of pharmacy annually dispense pharmaceutical learning to 10,000 students to add to the ranks of our 100,000 registered pharmacists...
...went to work in the Maxwell Motors assembly line at 15, at 18 started night school in the Georgia School of Technology, was in the used car trade for himself by 1924, went broke in the Florida boom collapse in 1926. Standing penniless on a Miami street corner, he saw a man trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped at a garage, sold the car for $500, set himself up selling cars on his $200 profit. In 1927 he sold over 2,000 cars in Tampa...